On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem that I am having now is that I am trying to install a new module > (Crypt::SecurID).
The easy way to install modules is to use the CPAN shell tool. It can be invoked on the command line by doing a $ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell The first time you run it you get asked a series of questions that takes five minutes or so to complete, but isn't very hard to do -- most of the default suggestions are reasonable so you can mostly just keep hitting "enter" to accept the defaults. Once the CPAN shell is open, you can install modules from there: cpan> install Crypt::SecurID This will find, download, build, test, and install the module you need, along with any modules that it depends on. This is much, much easier than doing everything by hand the way things used to be done. But that's an aside; your problem is different. > I downloaded the tgz file and extracted that on some dir as root. I > then (as per instructions that came with the tarball) ran perl > MakeFile.PL. Thereafter I ran make and got the following error: make: > *** No rule to make target > `/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/config.h', needed > by `Makefile'. Stop. That's not good. Do you actually have a file called -- /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/config.h -- ? Does it have Stuff in it? > What could be I doing wrong? Is it perhaps some stuff that I need to > install? I am using Mandrake 10.0. Have you been able to install any other modules? I'm not familiar with Mandrake, but some systems draw a distinction between core applications (Perl, MySQL) and the development headers that are needed to build other applications (perhaps perl-dev, mysql-dev, etc). Could there be a development branch of Perl needed on Mandrake? I'll look into that & get back if no one else responds with a better idea... -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
