[rhn-users] install addtional modules]

Thu Mar 23 18:03:32 UTC 2006

It sounds to me like your CPAN configuration doesn't have the correct
paths for tar and/or gzip.

Configuration is done the first time you try to invoke CPAN (and at
some other times that I haven't been able to determine yet).

I also don't know how to tell CPAN to do a re-configuration or where
the config files are stored.... not much help but at least it's a
step.

You could always just download the package from CPAN and install it yourself.

Please forgive me if I'm a little off here, but I just started reading
this thread and I don't know if I've gotten it all.

On 3/22/06, Riley, Liz (ACHE) <Liz.Riley at smiths-aerospace.com> wrote:
>
> Ah, up2date gzip means gzip the binary is installed, but perl doesn't
> have a bunch of scripts that constitute, "Archive::Tar" .. Certainly
> sounds like your perl is missing some bits. Sorry if this sounds a
> little patronising, however, linux<>perl they arent the same. Perl is a
> language, it would be like saying visual basic = windows. Only perl runs
> on all flavours of unix and windows.
>
> I did an almost default install of RH, and my install of spam assassin
> worked.
>
> Not sure what to suggest, as Id guess perl -MCPAN -e 'install
> Archive::Tar' wouldn't work
>
> Are gzip and tar both pathed? Did you try this as root? Rather than gzip
> Id guess its looking for compress/decompress
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of dlederer at hilltowncharter.org
> Sent: 22 March 2006 18:19
> To: rhn-users at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [rhn-users] install addtional modules]
>
> I ran perl -MCPAN -e 'install Mail::SpamAssassin'
> and I recieved a:
>
> CPAN.pm needs either both external programs tar and gzip installed or
> both the modules Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib. Neither prerequisite
> is available. Can't continue.
>
> so I typed:
> up2date gzip
>
> "The following packages you requested are already updated:
> gzip"
>
> and up2date tar
> and I get "The following packages you requested are already updated:
> Tar"
>
> Im sure Im missing something very basic about how Linux works...
> ??
> thanks for all the help!!!
> Dan
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message
> ----------------------------
> Subject: RE: [rhn-users] install addtional modules
> From:    "Riley, Liz (ACHE)" <Liz.Riley at smiths-aerospace.com>
> Date:    Wed, March 22, 2006 2:42 am
> To:      "Red Hat Network Users List" <rhn-users at redhat.com>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
>
>
> Would love to answer, but I always used
>
> perl -MCPAN -e 'install Mail::SpamAssassin'
>
> To install it.. It then will auto install anything I needed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of dlederer at hilltowncharter.org
> Sent: 21 March 2006 16:06
> To: rhn-users at redhat.com
> Subject: [rhn-users] install addtional modules
>
> Im trying to install and configure Spamassassin; I type:  perl
> Makefile.PL  and I get  The "sa-update" script requires this module to
> access compressed
>   update archive files.
>
> REQUIRED module missing: Digest::SHA1
> optional module missing: Net::DNS
> optional module missing: Mail::SPF::Query optional module missing:
> IP::Country optional module missing: Razor2 optional module missing:
> Net::Ident optional module missing: IO::Socket::INET6 optional module
> missing: IO::Socket::SSL optional module missing: Time::HiRes optional
> module missing: Archive::Tar optional module missing: IO::Zlib
>
>
>
> Question: How do I get and install these modules, especially the
> required one..
> thanks!!
> Dan Lederer
>
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