Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • SEARCH
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 8133275
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: June 6, 20262026-06-06T09:33:18+00:00 2026-06-06T09:33:18+00:00

On CentOS 6.2, perl v5.10.1 and I cannot install XML::SAX::Expat. Using cpan XML::SAX::Expat a

  • 0

On CentOS 6.2, perl v5.10.1 and I cannot install XML::SAX::Expat. Using “cpan XML::SAX::Expat”

a lot of the earlier problems I solved (there were a lot more errors when I first tried to installl XML::Simple) came from missing binaries required by the cpan config (in my case: unzip, make, lynx, patch, gcc, ftp). Since this is the only module failing to install (all other prerequisites are already installed), I am under the impression that I already installed all the OS requirements (via yum). Am I correct to assume this?

BTW, the histfile doesnt get created. Which permissions should i apply to /root/.cpan/ ?

What should I try next? Is it ok to force install?

All tests successful.
Files=13, Tests=486, 12 wallclock secs ( 0.07 usr  0.01 sys +  1.84 cusr  0.07 csys =  1.99 CPU)
Result: PASS
  GRANTM/XML-Simple-2.20.tar.gz
Tests succeeded but one dependency not OK (XML::SAX::Expat)
  GRANTM/XML-Simple-2.20.tar.gz
  [dependencies] -- NA
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Failed during this command:
 TODDR/XML-Parser-2.41.tar.gz                 : make NO
 BJOERN/XML-SAX-Expat-0.40.tar.gz             : make_test NO
 GRANTM/XML-Simple-2.20.tar.gz                : make_test NO one dependency not OK (XML::SAX::Expat)

Output from cpan conf:

load_module_verbosity [v]

lynx [/usr/bin/lynx]

make [/usr/bin/make]

make_arg []

make_install_arg []

make_install_make_command [/usr/bin/make]

makepl_arg [INSTALLDIRS=site]

mbuild_arg []

mbuild_install_arg []

mbuild_install_build_command [./Build]

mbuildpl_arg [–installdirs site]

ncftp []

ncftpget []

no_proxy []

pager [/usr/bin/less]

password undef

patch [/usr/bin/patch]

patches_dir undef

perl5lib_verbosity [v]

prefer_installer [MB]

prefs_dir [/root/.cpan/prefs]

prerequisites_policy [ask]

proxy_pass undef

proxy_user undef

randomize_urllist undef

scan_cache [atstart]

shell [/bin/bash]

show_unparsable_versions [0]

show_upload_date [0]

show_zero_versions [0]

tar [/bin/tar]

tar_verbosity [v]

term_is_latin [1]

term_ornaments [1]

test_report [0]

trust_test_report_history [0]

unzip [/usr/bin/unzip]

urllist

0 [ftp://cpan.pair.com/pub/CPAN/]

1 [ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/CPAN/]

2 [ftp://cpan.cs.utah.edu/CPAN/]

3 [ftp://mirror.atlantic.net/pub/CPAN/]

4 [http://httpupdate19.cpanel.net/CPAN/]

use_sqlite [0]

username undef

wait_list undef

wget [/usr/bin/wget]

yaml_load_code [0]

yaml_module [YAML]

  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. Editorial Team
    Editorial Team
    2026-06-06T09:33:19+00:00Added an answer on June 6, 2026 at 9:33 am

    If you have yum available, then run

    yum install expat
    

    and

    yum install expat-devel
    
    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Related Questions

I am trying to install the Crypt::OpenPGP module via Perl CPAN with no luck.
I'm using CentOS 5.5 Linux (same as Redhat 5.5) with stock perl v5.8.8 and
Which AMI would you suggest for CentOS 5.x 64-bit? There is quite a large
Is there a way to get CPU usage in CentOS? I need to parse
Running a VM with CentOS 5.7 with typical httpd install. I'm trying to write
I'm using CentOS, which appears to have vim installed by default. I located the
[CentOS, BASH, cron] Is there a method to declare variants that would keep even
I am using CentOS 5. I have created an rpm spec file for a
Im using centos 5.5 and installed vim 7 i defined syntax off in vimrc
i want to install postgres on centos 5.3 via rpm, i execute command rpm

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.