[Fedora-Bangladesh] Alien

[Imtiaz Rahi]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf
<zombiegenerator at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Having trouble installing alien. Followed this:
> http://content.hccfl.edu/pollock/AUnix1/alien/
>
> Now thing is like this:
>
> [Nirjhor at localhost ~]$ cd Downloads/
> [Nirjhor at localhost Downloads]$ ls
> alien              alien-extra.rpm
> alien_8.78.tar.gz  deb-1.10.27-3.i586.rpm  html2text-1.3.2a-3.i586.rpm
> [Nirjhor at localhost Downloads]$ rpm -q alien
> package alien is not installed
>
>
> I have installed html2text normally and alien forcefully. Also alien-extra
> forcefully. I also have perl installed. Now problem is this:
>
> [root at localhost alien]# perl Makefile.PL
> Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/local/lib/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5
> /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5
> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-
> linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at
> Makefile.PL line 2.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 2.
> [root at localhost alien]#
>
> Any help? Anyone?
> --
> Regards-
> Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
> Documentation Team,
> Linux Mint Bangladesh,
> Bogra.

u need the perl module. try this and then install the RPM.
yum whatprovides 'perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)'

cheers // imtiaz