Inline::MakeMaker should be installed by the Inline package as I recall.

The Device::USB dependencies include Inline::C which should have installed Inline::MakeMaker. I would try the following:

1. Check to see if Inline is installed.
2. Check to see if Inline::MakeMaker is installed.

I suspect that Inline failed to install somehow. But that is just a guess.

G. Wade

Thanks. I think we are on to something here. But, I'm still not getting there.

In response to:

#perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Inline::MakeMaker

I get:

Inline::MakeMaker is up to date (6.17)


In response to:

#perl -MCPAN -e shell > x.txt 2>&1
cpan> install Inline

I get:
Read more... (5 kB)

This seems to say that a url list that I didn't know about before must be set up for CPAN to operate. My next two actions follow the instructions given in the error report above.

In response to:

cpan> o conf init urllist

I get two blank line feeds and a cpan> prompt. Thus, I think that the computer is saying that it is happy with this.

In response to:

cpan o conf init connect_to_internet_ok urllist

I get two blank line feeds and a cpan> prompt. Thus, I again think that the computer is saying that it is happy with this.

When I once again try:

#perl -MCPAN -e shell > x.txt 2>&1
cpan> install Device::USB

I get:
Read more... (3 kB)
I ran through all of this several times as I was making notes and composing this posting. It took several passes before both of the "o conf" commands for urllist came back as successful. That makes me a little uneasy.

In the above error posting the following:

Warning: No success on command/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site
  GWADEJ/Device-USB-0.29.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- NOT OK

seems to be upset with a INSTALLDIRS variable or setting of some kind. I don't know what this is.

Still confused. Thanks for the help so far. Any additional suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Bruce

Is this a good assumption?

No - as has already been mentioned in this thread, Inline::MakeMaker is part of Inline. When installing Inline, you'll be prompted to install Inline::C (during the 'perl Makefile.PL' stage). Accept that prompt, and all should be fine.

Cheers,
Rob

In response to:

#perl -MCPAN -e shell > x.txt 2>&1
cpan> install Inline::C

I get:
Read more... (6 kB)

My system does not seem to be very happy with "install Inline::C". I have already done the "conf init urllist" commands several times so I don't know what else to try.

Thanks,
Bruce

Yes, if you had installed the Inline::MakeMaker package, otherwise no, you will not find it.

The best advice I can give you is try to revert the changes you made manually and install the package using cpan script. It is its work resolving the dependencies of the module and install all that is needed.

Rule One: "Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man."

I think that I have fully undone the couple of things that I did manually. I can't, obviously, undo the "cpan> install" changes.

Thanks,
Bruce

-fi Device::USB

Unknown shell command '-fi'. Type ? for help.

cpan> ?

cpan -fi Device::USB is done from the command-line. "-fi" is short for "force install". On the other hand, if you go into the CPAN shell, then you would use force install Device::USB.