in reply to Problem locating Carp::Heavy

um... you're missing Carp::Heavy?

When you 'use Carp;', which a whole lot of modules do (such as DBI), it loads some lightweight functions. If you call one of those functions, they then do 'require Carp::Heavy;' to do the actual work. (so the bulky part of the code doesn't get loaded until it's really needed.)

Once you have Carp::Heavy installed (which I would have expected to be at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/Carp/Heavy.pm based on the message given), it should give you a message telling you what went wrong that caused Carp to be called.

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Re^2: Problem locating Carp::Heavy
by Miguel (Friar) on Apr 07, 2005 at 01:58 UTC
    That was my first idea.

    But 

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CPAN Terminal> i Carp::Heavy

[MSG] Checking if source files are up to date
[MSG] Retrieving /root/.cpanplus/sourcefiles.2.13.stored
[ERROR] 'Carp::Heavy' does not contain an author part
[ERROR] Cannot find 'Carp::Heavy' in the module tree
No such module: Carp::Heavy
No modules found to operate on!
Nothing done
CPAN Terminal>

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      Right ... I should've been more clear -- it's part of Carp. Reinstall Carp so you get Carp::Heavy. (which is of course, part of the main perl distribution, so this can get messy). As it's pure perl, you should be able to just extract Carp.pm and Carp/Heavy.pm from the distribution, and place them in the right place.

      (there might be some easy way to install Carp from CPAN, without needing to pull down the whole perl-5.8.6 tarball, but I have no idea how ... but maybe someone else on here does)

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