Re^3: Need help with CPAN gone awry

it is always good to have another way to install them.

More than being "another way", it is always good to install packages in a OS compliant way. And that's RPM and yum on Fedora.

Unfortunately, the module "CGI" is not part of the RPM's.

It isn't, because it's in perl core:

qwurx [shmem] ~ > cat /etc/redhat-release 
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
qwurx [shmem] ~ > perl -MCGI -le 'print $INC{"CGI.pm"}'
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CGI.pm
qwurx [shmem] ~ >  rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CGI.pm 
perl-5.8.8-23.fc7
[download]

No need to install CGI.

update: while you're at it, do a

rpm -q perl-Compress-Zlib
[download]

If it isn't there, do a yum install perl-Compress-Zlib :-)

--shmem

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Re^4: Need help with CPAN gone awry by jlk (Hermit) on Sep 16, 2007 at 17:31 UTC
Sorry it took so long to get back on your suggestions. I did the "rpm" you suggested and it came back with: `perl-Compress-Zlib-1.42-1.fc6` and went back to the command prompt. Also, I tried the yum command also and it kicked back with the message, "Nothing to do", which tells me it is installed. I am really bewildered as to why this does not want to work. Any suggestions that anyone has as to why this isn't working and how to get it to work is greatly appreciated as I am stumped. Regards, Jeff "Every time Linux boots, a penguin gets its wings"	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Need help with CPAN gone awry by shmem (Chancellor) on Sep 16, 2007 at 17:53 UTC
Are you up to date wrt your Fedora packages? Do a yum update. I have the same version of `perl-Compress-Zlib` and no problems whatsoever. Just between reading your note and writing this reply, I did a `cpanflute2 --buildall --test --email "shmem <shmem@cpan.org>" \ /home/shmem/MINICPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.856.tar.gz ... ... # lotsa noise... ... Wrote: ./perl-Bundle-CPAN-1.856-8.src.rpm Wrote: ./perl-Bundle-CPAN-1.856-8.noarch.rpm ...` [download] Then, a `rpm -ivh perl-Bundle-CPAN-1.856-8.noarch.rpm` and all done (I have a minicpan repository locally in `/home/shmem/MINICPAN`). What is your perl package version? I have `perl-5.8.8-23.fc7`. --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply] [d/l] [select]