Fixed. I just needed to install Compress Zlib.
----- Original Message ----- From: "the.noonings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:32 AM Subject: Trouble intsalling PAR on linux I have no problem installing PAR on Windows. However, I cannot get it installed on Linux. I downloaded http://aut.dyndns.org/dist/PAR-0.79_99.tar.gz onto my Intel Linux Mandrake machine. I did an su to root: perl Makefile.PL --> ran ok, but then make fails. make chokes on trying to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz but the file is there and has rw permissions, as you can see: ----------------------snip [EMAIL PROTECTED] authors]# pwd /root/.cpan/sources/authors [EMAIL PROTECTED] authors]# ls -l total 280 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195403 Mar 3 10:54 01mailrc.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79609 Mar 3 10:54 01mailrc.txt.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 3 10:53 01mailrc.txt.gz-4263 ----------------------end snip By "chokes" I mean that it never finishes beyond the line Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz and my machine slows to a crawl. Any ideas? I am going to paste the last lines of output below. Hmmm. I see a Can't locate auto/Compress/Zlib/autosplit.ix line. Anyone know what this is about? ------------------------snip ==> Auto-install the 1 mandatory module(s) from CPAN? [n] y [Digital signature support] - Digest::SHA1 ...loaded. (2.07) - Module::Signature ...loaded. (0.38 >= 0.35) *** Dependencies will be installed the next time you type 'make'. *** ExtUtils::AutoInstall configuration finished. Writing Makefile for the par program Writing Makefile for PAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAR-0.79_99]# make /usr/bin/perl5.8.0 -Iinc Makefile.PL --config= --installdeps=Compress::Zlib,1.3 Can't locate auto/Compress/Zlib/autosplit.ix in @INC (@INC contains: inc /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/AutoLoader.pm line 158. at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Compress/Zlib.pm line 16 *** Installing dependencies... *** Installing Compress::Zlib... CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Wed, 04 Feb 2004 07:55:07 GMT Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz --------------------------end snip
