Trouble installing XML::Parser

apprentice has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am running Perl 5.8.4 on a linux machine. I have had no trouble installing other modules.

When I runcpan install XML::Parser it identifies dependendencies:

---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during J/JU/JUNOS/junoscript-perl-6.4I0.tar.gz -----
    XML::DOM
    XML::Parser::PerlSAX
    XML::Parser
Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue
of modules we are processing right now? yes

I hit enter to allow it, and it seems to have trouble with some of the dependencies and a ton of errors on XML::Parser and it just won't install. There are too many errors for me to figure out why it is failing. I've tried installing each of the dependencies, but that doesn't help, they are failing, too.

Can anyone else install XML::Parser? Any help appreciated,

Apprentice

"Peace, love, and Perl...well, okay, mostly just Perl!" --me

Apprentice

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Re: Trouble installing XML::Parser by gellyfish (Monsignor) on May 05, 2006 at 14:47 UTC
Yes, I've been caught like this before. The junoscript-perl package (probably mistakenly) contains a module called install, so when you mistakenly supply the 'install' command on the `cpan` command line it tries to install that whole package. You don't need to do that a simple: `cpan XML::Parser` [download] Will suffice. If you are sufficiently annoyed by this you might want to submit a bug report to either the author of junoscript to rename the module called install, or to the maintainer of CPAN, or the maintainer of the PAUSE indexer. All three are conspiring to cause this in a horrible coincidence. /J\	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Trouble installing XML::Parser by apprentice (Scribe) on May 05, 2006 at 15:02 UTC
I tried this, but still get similar errors. I also tried the suggestion from Mirod, to no avail. However, I have tried to narrow the problem down a bit more. There are a ton of errors, but the following are just the beginning and expat.h is definitely not there! Expat.xs:12:19: expat.h: No such file or directory Expat.xs:60: error: syntax error before "XML_Parser" Expat.xs:60: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union Expat.xs:78: error: syntax error before ':' token Expat.xs:79: error: syntax error before ':' token Expat.xs:80: error: syntax error before ':' token Expat.xs:106: error: syntax error before '}' token Expat.xs:106: warning: data definition has no type or storage class Expat.xs:111: error: syntax error before "nsdelim" Expat.xs:111: warning: data definition has no type or storage class Expat.xs:117: error: syntax error before '' token Expat.xs:118: error: syntax error before '' token [download] "Peace, love, and Perl...well, okay, mostly just Perl!" --me Apprentice	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Trouble installing XML::Parser by gellyfish (Monsignor) on May 05, 2006 at 15:04 UTC
Depending on your platform you may have to install an 'expat-devel' package or compile expat from source in order to get the required header files. /J\	[reply]
Re^4: Trouble installing XML::Parser by Spenser (Friar) on May 24, 2008 at 22:22 UTC
Re^3: Trouble installing XML::Parser by Anonymous Monk on May 06, 2006 at 07:10 UTC
Expat.xs:12:19: expat.h: No such file or directory http://search.cpan.org/src/MSERGEANT/XML-Parser-2.34/README This is a Perl extension interface to James Clark's XML parser, expat. It requires at least version 5.004 of perl and it requires that you have release 1.95.0 or greater of expat installed. You can download expat from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/	[reply]
Re: Trouble installing XML::Parser by mirod (Canon) on May 05, 2006 at 14:49 UTC
Did you install expat first? `expat` is the low level (C) library that handles the parsing for XML::Parser.	[reply]