On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote: > Rogelio wrote: > > when i type 'perl perlscript.pl, I get the following error > > > > Can't locate version.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > > [root at 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>). > > > What do I need to do to configure my perl environment? I typed in CPAN > and > > "install Bundles::CPAN" and it seemed to install everything, but on line > 29 > > 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 at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080228/ea161270/attachment-0005.html>