installed CPAN but application still doesn't work
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Sep 5 09:44:39 UTC 2006
jim martin wrote:
> Hi.. I am install a application called swatch and it required CPAN to be installed. I got this
> message
Maybe you need to learn what CPAN does? :-)
cpan - easily interact with CPAN from the command line
The errors are telling you that certain perl modules are not installed on
your system.
First do....
cpan -i Date::Calc
cpan -i Date::Format
and
cpan -i File::Tail
Then see what happens...
>
> [root at wa swatch-3.2.1]# perl Makefile.PL
> Warning: prerequisite Date::Calc 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite Date::Format 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite File::Tail 0 not found.
> Writing Makefile for swatch
>
> In the swatch documentation it states
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If you see messages like these:
>
> Warning: prerequisite Date::Calc 0 not found at (eval 1) line 219.
> Warning: prerequisite Date::Parse 0 not found at (eval 1) line 219.
> Warning: prerequisite File::Tail 0 not found at (eval 1) line 219.
> Warning: prerequisite Time::HiRes 1.12 not found at (eval 1) line 219.
>
> Then you need to install the CPAN module(s) that it doesn't find before
> you can use swatch. You can find these modules at search.cpan.org.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And then I went to search.cpan.org to install CPAN, below are the last installation status and I
> am able to issue cpan command as below.
>
> ************************************************************************
> [root at wa ~]# cpan
> CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok
>
> cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.87)
> ReadLine support enabled
> cpan>
> ************************************************************************
> However, after install the CPAN, but i still get the some error when i run the Perl Makefile.PL
>
> [root at wa swatch-3.2.1]# perl Makefile.PL
> Warning: prerequisite Date::Calc 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite Date::Format 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite File::Tail 0 not found.
> Writing Makefile for swatch
>
> Any body can help ? Is that because I had ran "make" before CPAN is installed that I need to
> unmake and run again ? Or Is there anything that I missed out in CPAN installation ?
>
> What is Date::Calc 0, Date::Format 0, File::Tail 0 not found mean ??
>
>
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