On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Ralph Angenendt ra+centos@br-online.de wrote:

Rogelio wrote:

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when i type 'perl perlscript.pl, I get the following error

Can't locate version.pm in @INC (@INC contains:

[root@shutdown result]# yum provides "version.pm" perl-version.x86_64 0.74-1.el5.rf rpmforge Matched from: /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/version.pm

Looks like it is in rpmforge (see http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories).

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What do I need to do to configure my perl environment? I typed in CPAN

and

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"install Bundles::CPAN" and it seemed to install everything, but on line

29

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of the perl script, it has a problem with the line

Using CPAN isn't quite as good of an idea as it seems - it tends to a) install newer versions of perl and b) the packaging system has no idea about files installed via CPAN.

The rpmforge repository (see above) has packaged quite a few perl modules, so I'd suggest to use that:

[angenenr@shutdown ~]$yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rpmforge list "perl*"|wc -l 2179

Wow, thank you very much Ralph!

I did a "yum provides" and installed perl-version. Once I did that, the script worked beautifully.

I notice that a lot of my questions stem from a misunderstanding of how RPMs work, as well as how YUM uses RPMs. Can anyone provide me some useful links? I google for info, but just seem to get little bits of knowledge but not enough to put it all together coherently.

Rogelio

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 20:38 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:

Rogelio wrote:

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I notice that a lot of my questions stem from a misunderstanding of how RPMs work, as well as how YUM uses RPMs. Can anyone provide me some useful links? I google for info, but just seem to get little bits of knowledge but not enough to put it all together coherently.

http://www.centos.org/docs/ - it's not that hard to find.

Yeah, after you know the answer, it's always so easy! ;-)

Just trying to interject a little love and kindness here. :-)

Cheers,

Ralph

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