Moved to a new server, Need help installing perl modules!

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Re: Moved to a new server, Need help installing perl modules! by jZed (Prior) on Feb 26, 2005 at 21:16 UTC
CGI.pm (must be upper-cased) is part of the perl distribution, you shouldn't have to install it separately. Try to just use it in a module (use CGI;) with the proper upper-casing. If that doesn't solve things, you'll need to tell us what OS you are on and whether you are using CPAN.pm, CPANPLUS.pm, ppm, apt-get, rpm, or just plain make since those are all possible ways to install a module.	[reply]
Re: Moved to a new server, Need help installing perl modules! by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Feb 27, 2005 at 00:28 UTC
Check @INC to make sure it has something in it. ExtUtils::MakeMaker and ExtUtils::Command comes with perl, so either someone removed it, it's somewhere that perl isn't looking, or, for some odd reason, it can't compile. You may think that last one is far-fetched, but it was my problem once. I tend not to touch the core modules (or write wrappers to overload them if I really need to), but other people think they can edit any file for any reason. If this is your server and you can, you might want to simply reinstall perl from the source. People have different feelings about this, but I never trust a third-party compilation of perl. I always do it myself. If this isn't your server, they may not want you to install modules, so they (re)moved the ExtUtils::* stuff. That's dumb, but that's just my opinion. If you really don't want to do that much work and just want to solve this problem for now and get on with life, you can just copy the CGI.pm file to where you want it, along with the CGI/ directory. The Makefile.PL for CGI.pm doesn't do anything fancy. Wherever you put the files needs to show up in @INC somehow. -- brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>	[reply]
Re: Moved to a new server, Need help installing perl modules! by Anonymous Monk on Feb 26, 2005 at 21:23 UTC
This new server giving me a headache getting it started. When I try running my script I get 403 error, forbidden you are not authorized to view this page. The script has execute permissions. When I look at perl module list there is only Net::SSLeay in the list. This is red hat linux	[reply]
Re^2: Moved to a new server, Need help installing perl modules! by jdalbec (Deacon) on Feb 27, 2005 at 01:49 UTC
In some versions of Red Hat Linux the CGI module is in a separate RPM called perl-CGI. Is that installed on the server?	[reply]
Re: Moved to a new server, Need help installing perl modules! by chanio (Priest) on Feb 27, 2005 at 20:34 UTC
This should help you a lot to get started: http://www.scriptsolutions.com/programs/free/perldiver/ Please, read the instructions and subscribe to the newgroup. It is a good helping hand to begin with! It might help, while you work, to listen to some BACH midis http://www.topology.org/midi/wtk/WTK.zip. (It keeps you organized :) ) .{\('v')/} C H E E R U P ! _`(___)' ___a_l_b_e_r_t_o_________ Wherever I lay my KNOPPIX disk, a new FREE LINUX nation could be established.	[reply]