Clarification: I’m pretty much a
Perl/CPAN noob, don’t assume I know
too much.
I have a pretty vanilla CPAN because I just rebuild my entire Lenny 5.0.2 VPS – so I pretty much have the default modules installed.
My eventual goal is to setup foswiki on my Apache 2.x based server.
So far I’m reading this guide and it says the first thing you should do is upgrade CPAN to the latest version. So I did (as su):
# perl -MCPAN -e '$ENV{FTP_PASSIVE} = 1; install CPAN'
Now, it’s installing/updating a bunch of stuff, here’s an excerpt:
CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-Test-Dummy-Perl5-Make-Expect-1.00.tar.gz CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-Test-Dummy-Perl5-Make-UnsatPrereq-1.00.tar.gz CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CHECKSUMS CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/cpantestdummies/ CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/cpantestdummies/CPAN-Test-Dummy-Perl5-Make-Features-1.05.tgz CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/cpantestdummies/CHECKSUMS CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-Test-Dummy-Perl5-Make-Zip-1.03.zip CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CHECKSUMS.2nd CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-Test-Dummy-Perl5-Make-1.05.tar.gz CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-Test-Dummy-Perl5-Make-Failearly-1.02.tar.gz CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/CHECKSUMS CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/A/CHECKSUMS CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/id/CHECKSUMS CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/CpanTestDummies-1.55.pm CPAN-1.9402/t/CPAN/TestConfig.pm CPAN-1.9402/t/51pod.t CPAN-1.9402/t/02nox.t CPAN-1.9402/t/50pod.t CPAN-1.9402/t/10version.t CPAN-1.9402/t/yaml_code.yml CPAN-1.9402/t/04clean_load.t CPAN-1.9402/README CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.18) CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.9402.tar.gz Importing PAUSE public key into your GnuPG keychain... gpg: new configuration file `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created gpg: WARNING: options in `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active during this run done! (You may wish to trust it locally with 'gpg --lsign-key 450F89EC') Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for CPAN Could not read '/root/.cpan/build/CPAN-1.9402-fmK7xK/META.yml'. Falling back to other methods to determine prerequisites ANDK/CPAN-1.9402.tar.gz make -- NOT OK Warning (usually harmless): 'YAML' not installed, will not store persistent state Running make test Can't test without successful make Running make install Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible kat:~#
I’ve searched Google and came across one page that said you should whenever possible install the package from aptitude/apt-get/yum, so I found a package named libyaml-perl, marked it for download, that went through fine.
Then I re-tried my initial command that installs the latest version of CPAN and …
CPAN-1.9402/t/50pod.t CPAN-1.9402/t/10version.t CPAN-1.9402/t/yaml_code.yml CPAN-1.9402/t/04clean_load.t CPAN-1.9402/README CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.18) CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.66) CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.9402.tar.gz Importing PAUSE public key into your GnuPG keychain... done! (You may wish to trust it locally with 'gpg --lsign-key 450F89EC') Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for CPAN ANDK/CPAN-1.9402.tar.gz make -- NOT OK Running make test Can't test without successful make Running make install Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
No clue what I should do now. Is there a way I can reset everything? Maybe I need to kill the file it tried to process so it can try to re-process it or something along those lines? If anyone else has general CPAN tips in addition to figuring out what this is, I’d be grateful.
- Did I install the yaml package the right way?
- Should I have done it from within CPAN?
- What proper steps or modules should I get first?
Eventually I’ll need to install these for foswiki:
- CGI::Session – Needed for Foswiki’s session feature which is really a must have
- Error – Needed if you later want to develop plugins. It is also distributed with Foswiki but the author has experienced lots of trouble with the build script that builds plugins which sometimes cannot find this library. By adding it to the site Perl library you avoid this kind of trouble.
- FreezeThaw – an indirectly needed module used by other modules.
- GD – Used by the pluging that can produce graphics such as Foswiki:Plugins.ChartPlugin. It requires that lib gd is installed. If your choice of installation does not include you simply need to install the rpms gd and gd-devel. They are both on the CDs or DVD.
- HTML::Tree – Needed by some popular plugins
- Time-modules (Time::CTime, Time::DaysInMonth, Time::JulianDay, Time::ParseDate, Time::Timezone) also needed by some popular plugins.
Use debian’s package management facilities to install: See instructions on the foswiki web site.
Stick with the platform-specific package management tools 99% of the time. Otherwise, configure CPAN to install in a separate directory (which you can add to
$PERL5LIB).