Re^3: Can't locate WWW/Mechanize/Firefox.pm in @INC

[ww]

in reply to Re^2: Can't locate WWW/Mechanize/Firefox.pm in @INC
in thread Can't locate WWW/Mechanize/Firefox.pm in @INC

Don't guess! The answer based on a guess has very little value as a response to a question from someone who's trying to help.

Try the command suggested in Re: Can't locate WWW/Mechanize/Firefox.pm in @INC and then tell us what it does (more on this -- how to execute -- is below).
And don't rely on external tools (either Check_INC.pl, which you don't show) nor where to tell you something about Perl that you can learn from your own Perl.

$ perl -v ; perl -e "print join \"\n\", @INC" can both help, or, use this little piece of code, which appeared here recently:

#! /usr/bin/perl
use 5.016;           #  adjust to suit the version identified from the
+ C:> prompt with <c>perl -v

use ExtUtils::Installed; my $module; my $inst = ExtUtils::Installed->new(); my (@modules) = $inst->modules(); foreach $module (@modules) { say "$module"; } </c>

The die $^X command gets executed from your command prompt, "C:\>" by preference (mine, an idiosyncracy) like this:
perl -E "die $^X;"
which will print something like this: C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe at -e line 1. where the part before the "(period)exe" is your path to perl.

... but at a quick glance, it appears from the content of your second code block that you're executing Oracle's 5.8 version of Perl... in which case, perhaps you didn't ask (Active State?) to add 5.16 to your path. So check your path too... is there an instance of Perl that's not in an Oracle directory?

Oh yes; @Annonymous Monk doesn't live here. But you can address Monks by name, by [name]... for example, to say your name to call you attention to this, I use that form of address: Pavan Renjal

Update: http://www.perl.com/pub/2002/05/14/mod_perl.html (under the heading "use(), require(), do(), %INC and @INC Explained" may be illuminating.

[Pavan Renjal]

ww Thanks for the reply! I have executed the codes and i got the following results. 1.Perl version

 
C:\>perl -v

This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 2 (v5.16.2) built for MSWin32-x
+86-multi-t
hread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2012, Larry Wall

Binary build 1602 [296513] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveSt
+ate.com
Built Dec 19 2012 12:35:59

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

2. I executed the 2nd code for INC

C:\> perl -e "print join \"\n\", @INC"
C:\Perl\lib
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\5.8.3\lib\MSWin32-x86
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\5.8.3\lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\5.8.3\lib
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\5.8.3\lib\MSWin32-x86
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\site\5.8.3
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\site\5.8.3\lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-th
+read
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\site\5.8.3\lib
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\sysman\admin\scripts
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\lib\5.8.3\MSWin32-x86
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\lib\5.8.3
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\5.8.3\lib\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\site\5.8.3
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\site\5.8.3\lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-th
+read
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\site\5.8.3\lib
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\sysman\admin\scripts
C:/Perl/site/lib
C:/Perl/lib

3. I executed the 3rd code and i got the following details:

C:\Perl Scripts>Module.pl
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
ActivePerl::CPAN::Config
ActivePerl::Config
ActivePerl::DocTools
ActivePerl::PPM
ActiveState::PerlCritic
ActiveState::RelocateTree
ActiveState::Scineplex
ActiveState::Utils
Algorithm::C3
Algorithm::Diff
Apache::DBI
AppConfig
Archive::Extract
Archive::Tar
Archive::Zip
AutoLoader
B::Debug
B::Keywords
Bit::Vector
CGI
CPAN::Meta
CPAN::Meta::Requirements
CPAN::Meta::YAML
CPANPLUS
CPANPLUS::Dist::Build
Carp::Clan
Class::Accessor
Class::C3
Class::Data::Inheritable
Class::Default
Class::Load
Class::Load::XS
Clone
Compress::Raw::Bzip2
Compress::Raw::Zlib
Config::Tiny
DBD::CSV
DBD::ODBC
DBD::Oracle
DBD::Pg
DBD::SQLite
DBI
Data::Dump
Data::Dumper
Data::JavaScript::Anon
Data::OptList
Date::Calc
Devel::GlobalDestruction
Devel::NYTProf
Devel::StackTrace
Devel::Symdump
Digest::HMAC
Digest::MD2
Digest::MD5
Digest::SHA
Digest::SHA1
Dist::CheckConflicts
Email::Address
Encode
Encode::Locale
Eval::Closure
Exception::Class
Exporter
ExtUtils::Install
File::Fetch
File::HomeDir
File::Listing
File::Next
File::Which
GD
GD::Graph
GD::Text
HTML::Form
HTML::Parser
HTML::Selector::XPath
HTML::Tagset
HTML::Template
HTML::Tree
HTTP::Cookies
HTTP::Daemon
HTTP::Date
HTTP::Message
HTTP::Negotiate
HTTP::Tiny
IO::Compress
IO::Socket::SSL
IO::String
IPC::Cmd
IPC::Run
JSON
JSON::Any
LWP
LWP::MediaTypes
LWP::Protocol::https
List::MoreUtils
Locale-Maketext
Locale::Codes
MRO::Compat
Mail::Sender
Memoize
MinGW
Module::Build
Module::CoreList
Module::Implementation
Module::Load::Conditional
Module::Metadata
Module::Pluggable
Module::Pluggable::Fast
Module::Runtime
Moose
Mozilla::CA
Net
Net::Daemon
Net::HTTP
Net::SSLeay
Net::Telnet
Object::Accessor
Object::Import
PPI
PPIx::Regexp
PPIx::Utilities
PPM::Repositories
Package::DeprecationManager
Package::Stash
Package::Stash::XS
Params::Check
Params::Classify
Params::Util
Parse::CPAN::Meta
Perl
Perl::Critic
PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint
Pod
Pod::Simple
RPC::PlServer
Readonly
Readonly::XS
SQL::Statement
Safe
Scope::Guard
Shell
Shell::Command
Spiffy
Storable
Sub::Exporter
Sub::Install
Sub::Name
Sub::Uplevel
Sys::Syslog
Task::Weaken
Tcl
Template
Template::Provider::FromDATA
Term::ANSIColor
Term::ReadKey
Term::ReadLine::Perl
Test::Differences
Test::Exception
Test::Harness
Test::Simple
Text
Text::Autoformat
Text::CSV_XS
Text::Diff
Text::Glob
Text::Reform
Text::SimpleTable
Time::Local
Tkx
Try::Tiny
UNIVERSAL::require
URI
Unicode::Collate
Unicode::Normalize
WWW::Mechanize
WWW::RobotRules
Win32
Win32::API
Win32::AuthenticateUser
Win32::Clipboard
Win32::Console
Win32::Console::ANSI
Win32::EventLog
Win32::File
Win32::FileSecurity
Win32::IPC
Win32::Internet
Win32::Job
Win32::NetAdmin
Win32::NetResource
Win32::ODBC
Win32::OLE
Win32::PerfLib
Win32::Pipe
Win32::Process
Win32::Registry
Win32::Service
Win32::Shortcut
Win32::Sound
Win32::TieRegistry
Win32::WinError
Win32API::Net
Win32API::Registry
XML::Parser
XML::Simple
YAML::LibYAML
ap-iis-config
autodie
bignum
dmake
lib
libwww-perl
mylib
threads::shared
version

4. The 4th code gave me the following results:

C:\>perl -E "die $^X;"
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe at -e line 1.

For the next query "... but at a quick glance, it appears from the content of your second code block that you're executing Oracle's 5.8 version of Perl... in which case, perhaps you didn't ask (Active State?) to add 5.16 to your path. So check your path too... is there an instance of Perl that's not in an Oracle directory?"

Please help me understand this. How do i check the path? "is there an instance of Perl that's not in an Oracle directory?" - How do i check this? Thanks for the link related to INC. Thanks for all your time and help!

[ww]

path with no arguments from your command prompt will show the existing path. you can add to it, change it, etc. Your "2." seems to say that the Oracle @inc may be higher (earlier) in your path than the 5.16 path... or that 5.16 doesn't have a proper path to your modules (which should be in a series of directories subordinate to the dir named Perl.

As to an additional instance of Perl, you've answered that with perl -v which says immediately that 5.16 was executing. So, you've already checked that.

But we still don't have quite enough info to give you an Rx for a cure.