Re: installed CPAN but application still doesn't work

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jim martin wrote:
> Hi.. I am install a application called swatch and it required CPAN to be installed.  I got this
> message 

Maybe you need to learn what CPAN does?  :-)

cpan - easily interact with CPAN from the command line

The errors are telling you that certain perl modules are not installed on
your system.

First do....

cpan -i Date::Calc
cpan -i Date::Format
and
cpan -i File::Tail

Then see what happens...


> 
> [root@wa swatch-3.2.1]# perl Makefile.PL
> Warning: prerequisite Date::Calc 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite Date::Format 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite File::Tail 0 not found.
> Writing Makefile for swatch
> 
> In the swatch documentation it states 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
> If you see messages like these:
> 
>     Warning: prerequisite Date::Calc 0 not found at (eval 1) line 219.
>     Warning: prerequisite Date::Parse 0 not found at (eval 1) line 219.
>     Warning: prerequisite File::Tail 0 not found at (eval 1) line 219.
>     Warning: prerequisite Time::HiRes 1.12 not found at (eval 1) line 219.
> 
> Then you need to install the CPAN module(s) that it doesn't find before 
> you can use swatch. You can find these modules at search.cpan.org.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> And then I went to search.cpan.org to install CPAN,  below are the last installation status and I
> am able to issue cpan command as below.   
> 
> ************************************************************************
> [root@wa ~]# cpan
> CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok
> 
> cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.87)
> ReadLine support enabled
> cpan> 
> ************************************************************************
> However, after install the CPAN, but i still get the some error when i run the Perl Makefile.PL
> 
> [root@wa swatch-3.2.1]# perl Makefile.PL
> Warning: prerequisite Date::Calc 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite Date::Format 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite File::Tail 0 not found.
> Writing Makefile for swatch
> 
> Any body can help ?  Is that because I had ran "make" before CPAN is installed that I need to
> unmake and run again ?  Or Is there anything that I missed out in CPAN installation ?
> 
> What is Date::Calc 0, Date::Format 0, File::Tail 0 not found mean ??   
> 
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