Greetings Monks,

I can't figure out how to get Device::USB installed on my computer. I have tried two machines, a 64-bit with Ubuntu 6.06 and a 32-bit with Ubuntu 7.10. Both seem to fail in the same way.

I initially downloaded Device-USB-0.29.tar.gz and extracted the files. Then, from "README" I tried: 
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

I got the error message:
Can't locate Inline/MakeMaker.pm in @INC
Compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 3

Using "find" I was able to find:
/usr/share/perl/5.8.7/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm

I then tried adding "push @INC, "/usr/share/perl/5.8.7/ExtUtils" high in the Makefile.PL code.
This didn't do any good.

Next (possibly unwise) I copied MakeMaker.pm to one of the directories in @INC. This changed my error message to:
Undefined sukbroutine &main::WriteMakefile called at MakeFile.PL line 50

After some Googling I came across: 
# perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Device::USB
Inside the cpan> prompt I also tried "install MakeMaker.pm" and "i /MakeMaker.pm/". None of these worked.

A message high in the CPAN response was to "try install Bundle::CPAN". I did this. It must have run for 20 or more minutes. After all of that (I don't know what all it did) there was no improvement in my problem.

The response when I tried the install at the cpan> prompt was: 
Terminal does not support AddHistory.

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7601)
ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN')

CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /home/bxxxx/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:26:58 GMT
Running install for module Device::USB
Running make for G/GW/GWADEJ/Device-USB-0.29.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
Checksum for /home/bxxxx/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GW/GWADEJ/Device-U
+SB-0.29.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /home/bxxxx/.cpan/build for sizes
Device-USB-0.29/
Device-USB-0.29/Changes
Device-USB-0.29/dump_usb.pl
Device-USB-0.29/Makefile.PL
Device-USB-0.29/MANIFEST.SKIP
Device-USB-0.29/MANIFEST
Device-USB-0.29/README
Device-USB-0.29/USB.pm
Device-USB-0.29/t/
Device-USB-0.29/t/17-usb_dev_endpoint.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/00-load.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/07-list_devices_if.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/05-find_device_if.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/02-find_busses_devices.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/15-usb_dev_configuration.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/06-list_devices.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/09-usb-bus.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/16-usb_dev_interface.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/14-bus_list_devices_if.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/11-usb-device-methods.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/boilerplate.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/04-find_device.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/pod-coverage.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/03-list_busses.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/08-get_busses.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/10-usb-device-accessors.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/13-bus_find_device_if.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/pod.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/TestTools.pm
Device-USB-0.29/t/12-constants.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/18-usb_device-configurations.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/01-create-usb.t
Device-USB-0.29/META.yml
Device-USB-0.29/lib/
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/DevConfig.pm
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/FAQ.pod
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/Device.pm
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/DevInterface.pm
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/DevEndpoint.pm
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/Bus.pm
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB.pm
Removing previously used /home/bxxxx/.cpan/build/Device-USB-0.29

  CPAN.pm: Going to build G/GW/GWADEJ/Device-USB-0.29.tar.gz

Running make test
  Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't install

Terminal does not support GetHistory.
Lockfile removed.

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Any ideas would be appreciated,

Thank you,
Bruce

In reply to trouble installing Device::USB by Bruce32903

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