Module libraries

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

I've just added Net::Telnet.pm to the perl modules on a Solaris 2.6 box. My problem is that the module libraries don't seem to be pointing to the right place. @INC includes:

/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris-thread 
/usr/local/lib/perl5
/5.00503 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris-thread 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005

However, the Telnet.pm module is located in:

/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503

When I installed, the module wasn't copied anywhere automatically. I had to copy it to this directory manually. I chose that directory because that's where all the other .pm's are. Did I do wrong? Why isn't this directory in @INC and how do I add it?

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Re: Module libraries by japhy (Canon) on Mar 26, 2001 at 22:46 UTC
A module called `Foo::Bar` needs to be named as `Bar.pm` in the directory `Foo/`. So `Net::Telnet` module should be in `Net/Telnet.pm`. `japhy` -- Perl and Regex Hacker	[reply]
Re: Re: Module libraries by Galen (Beadle) on Mar 26, 2001 at 22:51 UTC
Doh. Right. It was right in front of my face and I wasn't seeing it. Thanks, all's working now.	[reply]
Re: Module libraries by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 26, 2001 at 22:49 UTC
Net::Telnet lives in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Net/Telnet.pm, on my Linux box. It should probably go in a similar place on yours (/usr/local/lib...). It's probably more useful to ask how you installed it... did you use the CPAN module or download a tarball and run 'perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install'? Either way, it should install automagically to the right place. If not, that's a bug and needs to be reported. Adding a directory to @INC can be found in How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?, but it's probably better that the install works correctly.	[reply]
Re: Module libraries by arturo (Vicar) on Mar 26, 2001 at 22:51 UTC
It isn't there because: you didn't install it with `perl Makefile.PL; make; make install` you did do the above but you don't have permissions to install into `@INC` (since you installed later on, perhaps when you did the installation you weren't running with proper permissions?). the module's makefile is broken (EXTREMELY unlikely).	[reply] [d/l] [select]