in reply to "File::Basename" problems

You have to use the full path to perl5.10.0 because, when you installed perl5.8.9, you must have run: rm -f config.sh Policy.sh. By doing that, you made perl5.8.9 the main perl; hence, 5.10.0 isn't your system perl anymore. Because the config.sh and Policy.sh of 5.10.0 was removed, you'll have to reinstall 5.10.0, removing the config.sh and Policy.sh for 5.8.9, if you want 5.10.0 to be the system perl.

One other thing, be very careful when authors list dependencies. They don't really make any distinction between core and site modules. The best thing to do, especially when you're just starting out, is use the CPAN shell. It'll take care of the dependencies for you.

One good way of telling if a module is core is to use corelist. For example from the command-line:

corelist File::Basename

It'll tell you if it's core or not. You could also get a list of core modules starting with File:: like this

corelist /^File::/ and it'll list the core modules starting with File::.

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Re^2: "File::Basename" problems
by iksrazal (Initiate) on Aug 18, 2009 at 15:24 UTC
    Hi all, I went on vacation and I'm back on trying to make this work.

    I tried the following:

    /usr/src/perl-5.8.9> make uninstall make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.

    So I added this bash alias to get 5.10.0 for now:

    alias perl='/usr/bin/perl5.10.0'

    I also ran:

    /root> corelist /^File::/ | grep -i basename

    File::Basename was first released with perl 5

    linux-df3s(root)

    /root> perl -v

    This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i586-linux-thread-multi

    I reran all the cpan installs. I continue to get:

    /home/iksrazal/Documents> /usr/bin/perl5.10.0 msgconvert.pl mymessage.msg

    Unknown DIR entry MsoDataStore

    Unknown FILE entry SummaryInformation

    Unknown property 1039

    Unknown property 10F3

    Googling turns up nothing on those errors. Here is the contents of msgconvert.pl , which I got from http://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv . Please help.

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

    #

    # msgconvert.pl:

    #

    # Convert .MSG files (made by Outlook (Express)) to multipart MIME messages.

    #

    use Email::Outlook::Message;

    use Email::LocalDelivery;

    use Getopt::Long;

    use Pod::Usage;

    use File::Basename;

    use vars qw($VERSION);

    $VERSION = "0.902";

    # Setup command line processing.

    my $verbose = '';

    my $mboxfile = '';

    my $help = ''; # Print help message and exit.

    GetOptions(

    'mbox=s' => \$mboxfile,

    'verbose' => \$verbose,

    'help|?' => \$help) or pod2usage(2);

    pod2usage(1) if $help;

    # Check file names

    defined $ARGV[0] or pod2usage(2);

    foreach my $file (@ARGV) {

    my $mail = new Email::Outlook::Message($file, $verbose)->to_email_mime->as_string;

    if ($mboxfile ne '') {

    Email::LocalDelivery->deliver($mail, $mboxfile);

    } else {

    my $basename = basename($file, qr/\.msg/i);

    my $outfile = "$basename.mime";

    open OUT, ">$outfile"

    or die "Can't open $outfile for writing: $!";

    print OUT $mail;

    close OUT;

    }

    }

    #

    # Usage info follows.

    #

    __END__

    =head1 NAME

    msgconvert.pl - Convert Outlook .msg files to mbox format

    =head1 SYNOPSIS

    msgconvert.pl options <file.msg>...

    Options:

    --mbox <file> deliver messages to mbox file <file>

    --verbose be verbose

    --help help message

    =head1 OPTIONS

    =over 8

    =item B<--mbox>

    Deliver to the given mbox file instead of creating individual .mime

    files.

    =item B<--verbose>

    Print information about skipped parts of the .msg file.

    =item B<--help>

    Print a brief help message.

    =head1 DESCRIPTION

    This program will convert the messages contained in the Microsoft Outlook

    files <file.msg>... to message/rfc822 files with extension .mime.

    Alternatively, if the --mbox option is present, all messages will be put in

    the given mbox file. This program will complain about unrecognized OLE

    parts in the input files on stderr.

    =head1 BUGS

    The program will not check whether output files already exist. Also, if you

    feed it "foo.MSG" and "foo.msg", you'll end up with one "foo.mime",

    containing one of the messages.

    Not all data that's in the .MSG file is converted. There simply are some

    parts whose meaning escapes me. One of these must contain the date the

    message was sent, for example. Formatting of text messages will also be

    lost. YMMV.

    =head1 AUTHOR

    Matijs van Zuijlen, C<matijs@matijs.net>

    =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    Copyright 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007 by Matijs van Zuijlen

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

    it under the same terms as Perl itself.

    =cut

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