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@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@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@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 ?? > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
