I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, and don't know how to go through
the package manager to get this done. Also, is it possible that I didn't
place the expat library in the right place?

thanks

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:38 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote:

> What distribution are you running? It might be easier to go through the
> package manager and let it deal with dependencies. Under ubuntu, its
> libxml-parser-perl.
> On Nov 1, 2010 1:47 PM, "galeb abu-ali" <abuali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I do not have ParserDetails.ini in the SAX folder. I just tried
> installing
> > XML::Parser using CPAN and got a lot of error messages that end with:
> >
> > make[1]: *** [Expat.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/.cpan/build/XML-Parser-
> > 2.40-oAWQkX/Expat'
> > make: *** [subdirs] Error 2
> > CHORNY/XML-Parser-2.40.tar.gz
> > make -- NOT OK
> > Running make test
> > Can't test without successful make
> > Running make install
> > Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
> >
> > Before installing perl, I also installed the expat library expat-2.0.1.
> >
> > galeb
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Jim Gibson <jimsgib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/1/10 Mon Nov 1, 2010 10:01 AM, "galeb abu-ali" <
> >> abuali...@gmail.com>
> >> scribbled:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I installed BioPerl on RHEL 5.5 (successfully I hope) and am trying to
> >> > execute a xml parser script that uses XML::Simple. I keep getting the
> >> > following error message:
> >> >
> >> > could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_
> >> > perl/5.12.2/XML/SAX
> >> >
> >> > When I try to reinstall XML::Simple using CPAN, it tells me that the
> >> module
> >> > is up to date. Not sure what to do at this point. Does anyone have an
> >> idea
> >> > what I'm doing wrong or haven't done? My script is below.
> >>
> >> On my system, ParserDetails.ini is located in the directory:
> >>
> >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/XML/SAX
> >>
> >> so it would seem to be part of the XML::SAX module.
> >>
> >> Also, the documentation for XML::Simple contains this:
> >>
> >> The XML::Simple module provides a simple API layer on top of an
> >> underlying XML parsing module (either XML::Parser or one of the SAX2
> >> parser modules).
> >>
> >> So XML::Simple depends upon an XML parser installed independently on
> your
> >> system. Have you installed any XML parsers?
> >>
> >>
> >>
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