Re: A Guide to Installing Modules

[Anonymous Monk]

I have been assigned to install a whole load of CPAN modules on the machines I admin for. The machines are a collection of differing RedHat boxes used by techies who like to change configurations and versions (so we have a lot of different RedHat and Perl versions). I tried CPAN but it requires an initial setup for each machine and I just want to install a directory full of perl-module.tar.gz's; I tried a script that essentially did uncompress, perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install but some packages throw up prompts on the Makefile.PL step and I don't know of a way to just indicate the defaults to each package. Any help would be appreciated.

[tachyon]

Module::ScanDeps. Then build a test system that conforms to the minimal spec. Then make a build order. Then test.

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[OxYgEn]

I've read your entire guide, and I still can't figure out how to get it to work, mostly due to my stupidity, i think.
I have Windows XP Home and really I'm just messing around with PERL. I'm trying to install the Data::Serializer module. As you suggested, I downloaded CYGWIN(even though I can't stand BASH shells). Previously, I had used a program called ActivePerl to run my perl scripts. Here's what I did:

Downloaded the module to desktop from CPAN
Opened it with WinZip, and extracted it to C:\Perl\lib
Opened CYGWIN, changed to the directory, used perl makefile.pl
It told me that it had successfully installed it
I went to run my script(C:\test.pl) using ActivePerl, not CYGWIN, and I get the same error as when I had not installed the module. Here is the error if it helps:

Can't locate Data/Serializer.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib .) at C:\test.pl line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\test.pl line 4.

Thanks,
OxYgEn

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