Re^2: Configuring Mac OS X to Install Perl Modules

These posts pointed me in the write direction. Hopefully, this clarification can help someone else fix this same problem.

To install DateTime on Mac

read the original post from Perrmoss and the reply by Corion for background info
sudo CPAN
go through configuration (if needed) press enter for most options except:
choose "follow" for the prerequisite policy (instead of ask)
personally, I made the recommended/common choices to some of the options (like UNINST=1)

Now here's the key:

Try to install DateTime. Every time you see an error, install the package that's missing by:

Looking for text along the lines of

Can't locate Params/Validate.pm in @INC (@INC

Can't locate DateTime/Locale.pm in @INC (@INC

Take the "Params/Validate.pm" part and convert it to Params::Validate
and run the corresponding command in CPAN: install Params::Validate

For me to get the DateTime module to install I had to run the following, first:

install Params::Validate

install DateTime::Locale

install DateTime::TimeZone

Keep following that pattern and you'll get it installed, finally!!!

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Re^3: Configuring Mac OS X to Install Perl Modules by Anonymous Monk on Feb 08, 2010 at 07:27 UTC
In addition to everything I wrote above, I also needed to run install Test::Exception So the final, full list of everything I command I ran to install DateTime on my MacBook Pro OS X 10.5.8, that has never before used perl sudo CPAN (press enter lots of times to config) install Params::Validate install DateTime::Locale install DateTime::TimeZone install Test::Exception install Test::Warn install DateTime::Format::ICal and FINALLY: install DateTime Sadly, I have no idea what I just did. All I know is it worked for me and I moved on to successfully finish setting up bugzilla. I hope this helps someone else out there (the way the posts in this thread lead me to figure this thing out) - Kevin G. a.k.a. gMale	[reply]
Re^4: Configuring Mac OS X to Install Perl Modules by Anonymous Monk on May 06, 2010 at 14:35 UTC
I also needed to install Test::More. Otherwise I got some nonsense about "You tried to run a test without a plan".	[reply]
Re^4: Configuring Mac OS X to Install Perl Modules by Anonymous Monk on Mar 03, 2010 at 08:23 UTC
I just wanted to say thanks, and also to let others know that almost 3 years later, this worked perfectly for me on Snow Leopard.	[reply]
Re^4: Configuring Mac OS X to Install Perl Modules by Anonymous Monk on Jan 06, 2012 at 21:40 UTC
If I try to install DateTime, I get this: lizxp-4:~ lizx$ cpan DateTime CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18) Going to read /Users/lizx/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:10:31 GMT CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.78) Going to read /Users/lizx/.cpan/build/ ............................................................................DONE Found 35 old builds, restored the state of 35 Running install for module 'DateTime' Running Build for D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.72.tar.gz Prepending /Users/lizx/.cpan/build/JSON-PP-2.27200-mFYxJ8/blib/arch /Users/lizx/.cpan/build/JSON-PP-2.27200-mFYxJ8/blib/lib to PERL5LIB for 'get' Has already been unwrapped into directory /Users/lizx/.cpan/build/DateTime-0.72-LkeH0n Prepending /Users/lizx/.cpan/build/JSON-PP-2.27200-mFYxJ8/blib/arch /Users/lizx/.cpan/build/JSON-PP-2.27200-mFYxJ8/blib/lib to PERL5LIB for 'make' Could not make: Unknown error Prepending /Users/lizx/.cpan/build/JSON-PP-2.27200-mFYxJ8/blib/arch /Users/lizx/.cpan/build/JSON-PP-2.27200-mFYxJ8/blib/lib to PERL5LIB for 'test' Running Build test Can't test without successful make Running Build install Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible ---- I don't know what else to try.	[reply]
Re^4: Configuring Mac OS X to Install Perl Modules by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2012 at 21:11 UTC
Had to do Install Module::Runtime before everything else.	[reply]