Question

I’ve been trying to install XML::Simple on Ubuntu 12.10 for the past two hours or so and have officially run out of ideas. It’s failing at the XML::Parser.

I’ve done an

sudo apt-get install expat

and it still did not work. Here’s the error I’ve been getting:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/<user>/.cpan/build/XML-Parser-2.41-MCLo7T/Expat'
cp Expat.pm ../blib/lib/XML/Parser/Expat.pm
/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl/5.14.2/ExtUtils/xsubpp -noprototypes -typemap /usr/share /perl/5.14/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap  Expat.xs > Expat.xsc && mv Expat.xsc Expat.c
cc -c   -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g   -DVERSION=\"2.41\" -DXS_VERSION=\"2.41\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl/5.14/CORE"   Expat.c
Expat.xs:12:19: fatal error: expat.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [Expat.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sclarawu/.cpan/build/XML-Parser-2.41-MCLo7T/Expat'
make: *** [subdirs] Error 2
TODDR/XML-Parser-2.41.tar.gz
/usr/bin/make -- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

Seems to be telling me that it’s unable to find expat.h, but I’m not sure why or how, considering expat is installed? I tried to apt expat-devel, but it appears not to be a package in apt. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

EDIT: I seemed to have been simply trying to install the wrong package. -.- It’s always the little things. Much thanks to those who answered!

Answer 1

Another way to get to the same information which @Moritz Bunkus has pointed out above.

ubuntu:~$ apt-cache search expat 
expat - XML parsing C library - example application 
libexpat1 - XML parsing C library - runtime library 
libexpat1-dev - XML parsing C library - development kit

The third one in the result set is what you are looking for.