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I’m just a developer on my system and I have to have the system administrator install Perl Modules for me. After spending the good part of the day trying to get it to work he has given up. The SFTP does function but it reports the error

“Math::BigInt: couldn't load specified math lib(s), fallback to Math: :BigInt::Calc at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/Crypt/DH.pm line 6.

He attempted to install the required modules but was not successful:

cpan> install Math::BigInt

CPAN: Storable loaded ok

Going to read /.cpan/Metadata

Database was generated on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:11:21 GMT

Math::BigInt is up to date.

cpan> install Math::Pari

Math::Pari is up to date.

He tried installing Math::GMP but got:

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WARNING! No GMP libraries were detected!

Please see the INSTALL file.

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The SFTP takes 50 seconds for it to deal with the fallback. This is unacceptable so I will have use a different method to implement SFTP or use the NET::FTP module. Googling this error I see it is very popular too bad the install can’t be made less complicated.

In reply to Re^2: Math::BigInt: couldn't load specified math lib(s), fallback to Math::BigInt::Calc at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Crypt/DH.pm line 6 by tpreisinger
in thread Math::BigInt: couldn't load specified math lib(s), fallback to Math::BigInt::Calc at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Crypt/DH.pm line 6 by sugarboy

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