net-snmp-perl not the same as Net::SNMP?

[Paul Howarth]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> Can anyone shed some light on net-snmp-perl vs Net::SNMP?  I've got a
> program that uses Net::SNMP.  I've installed net-snmp-perl.  I can see
> that there is an SNMP.pm on my system, yet when I run the script it
> bombs at "use Net::SNMP"
> 
> Can't locate Net/SNMP.pm in @INC (@INC contains: nagios-plugins/libexec
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 .) at ./check_ifoperstatus line 41.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./check_ifoperstatus line 41.
> 
> I'd like to avoid using CPAN to install the modules (as I'm trying to
> package this for Fedora-Extras).  I've seen some posts on this as it
> related to FC2 but nothing relating to FC3 or FC4.  Any ideas?

net-snmp-perl and Net::SNMP are two different things.

net-snmp-perl is the perl bindings for the snmp library at 
http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/, which provides an SNMP.pm without the 
Net:: prefix.

Net::SNMP is a perl module from http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SNMP/ 
which provides Net::SNMP (i.e. it would be 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Net/SNMP.pm). You can find RPMs for 
this package in Dag's repo: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/perl-Net-SNMP/

Paul.