Missing perl module is messing everything up

David LeCount snailboy1 at yahoo.com
Sat May 12 01:59:58 UTC 2007


--- Craig Russell <crussell_1969 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Try running "perl -MCPAN -e shell" as root.
> 
> That should take you to a cpan> prompt from there
> type
> "install XML::Parser"
> 
> If that completes succesfully hit exit and try to
> install what you were looking for.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Craig Russell

I tried that. It wasn't installed at first, but after
saying "XML::Parser is up to date," programs being
compiled still don't detect it.


--- youshi10 at u.washington.edu wrote:

> Sounds similar to an error which occurred with
> Gentoo Linux over the past couple years. Did you
> just upgrade Perl and do you use GNU products
> frequently?
> -Garrett

I don't know of any GNU apps I use frequently. I have
a few installed, mostly as dependencies. I did just
update Perl though. This trouble started during a cvsup.


       
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