Re: linux modules cpan and things not found

Although you mention reading A Guide To Installing Modules you don't seem to have tried anything outlined there.

CPAN and PPM are convenience tools. They are fine when they work, but they don't always do the job. The standard way to install software on *nix is:

cd /usr/src (this is the standard location for source code)
wget http://some.site.com/blah/software-1.01.tar.gz (we need to get th
+e tarball)
tar xzf software.tar.gz  (ungzip and untar it)
cd software-1.01  (now go to the dir)
perl Makefile.PL (./configure for most C code)
make  (compile)
make test (test)
make install (install ;-)
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Give it a go. You will have to download dependencies and install them but all up it should be both educational and very useful to your Linux knowledge base as you will be able to escape RPM as well.

As chromatic notes the likely issue is that XML::Parser uses the expat library (it is a wrapper on top). I needed to update expat it so following the steps above......

[root@devel3 dat]# cd /usr/src




[root@devel3 src]# wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/e
+xpat/expat-1.95.8.tar.gz

--04:14:08--  http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat
+-1.95.8.tar.gz
           => `expat-1.95.8.tar.gz'
Resolving switch.dl.sourceforge.net... done.
Connecting to switch.dl.sourceforge.net[195.176.255.8]:80... connected
+.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 318,349 [application/x-gzip]

100%[=================================================================
+=================================>] 318,349      304.20K/s    ETA 00:
+00

04:14:10 (304.20 KB/s) - `expat-1.95.8.tar.gz' saved [318349/318349]




[root@devel3 src]# tar -xzf expat-1.95.8.tar.gz




[root@devel3 src]# cd expat-1.95.8




[root@devel3 expat-1.95.8]# ./configure

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
[snip]
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating expat_config.h
[root@devel3 expat-1.95.8]# make
/bin/sh ./libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-p
+rototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H   -I
+./lib -I. -o lib/xmlparse.lo -c lib/xmlparse.c
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/bin/sh ./libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prot
+otypes -Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H   -I./l
+ib -I.  -o xmlwf/xmlwf xmlwf/xmlwf.o xmlwf/xmlfile.o xmlwf/codepage.o
+ xmlwf/unixfilemap.o libexpat.la




[root@devel3 expat-1.95.8]# make test

make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop. 

/* Note that with C source code it is not unusual that there are not t
+ests
   defined in the makefile. This is an ignorable error
*/




[root@devel3 expat-1.95.8]# make install

/bin/sh ./conftools/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/lib /usr/local/include
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c libexpat.la /usr/
+local/lib/libexpat.la
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libexpat.so.0.5.0 /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so
+.0.5.0
(cd /usr/local/lib && rm -f libexpat.so.0 && ln -s libexpat.so.0.5.0 l
+ibexpat.so.0)
(cd /usr/local/lib && rm -f libexpat.so && ln -s libexpat.so.0.5.0 lib
+expat.so)
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libexpat.lai /usr/local/lib/libexpat.la
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libexpat.a /usr/local/lib/libexpat.a
ranlib /usr/local/lib/libexpat.a
chmod 644 /usr/local/lib/libexpat.a
PATH="$PATH:/sbin" ldconfig -n /usr/local/lib
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Libraries have been installed in:
   /usr/local/lib

If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR'
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
   - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
     during execution
   - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
     during linking
   - use the `-Wl,--rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
   - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf'

See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./lib/expat.h ./lib/expat_external.h /usr/l
+ocal/include
/bin/sh ./conftools/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man/man1
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c xmlwf/xmlwf /usr/
+local/bin/xmlwf
/usr/bin/install -c xmlwf/.libs/xmlwf /usr/local/bin/xmlwf
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./doc/xmlwf.1 /usr/local/man/man1
[root@devel3 expat-1.95.8]#
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cheers

tachyon

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