F8: CPAN problem
Dan Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Thu Jan 28 01:03:01 UTC 2010
On 01/27/2010 03:03 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> 2010/1/27 Dan Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com>:
>
>> Can't locate CPAN.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .).
>>
> Is CPAN.pm actually in any of those paths?
>
> What perl version are you running (should be 5.8.8, but doesn't hurt to check)?
>
> If you can find CPAN.pm and it's not in @INC, you can force it by:
>
> export PERL5LIB=/path1/to/libs:/path2/to/libs
>
> But to be honest, I don't know what's causing your error - the fact
> it's now complaining about CPAN when it was complaining about
> MakeMaker before is slightly screwy.
>
> --
> Sam
>
I finally fixed my problems, but thanks to your previous post that
gave me the idea indirectly, by hinting at: ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm!
What I found was to do:
yum remove perl-ExtUtils*
...and reinstall 182 packages that were removed as dependencies
instead of trying to remove perl itself for which there were 2700+
dependencies.
Also, if one did:
yum whatdepends CPAN.pm
...and CPAN.pm is found in package: perl-CPAN
Apparently, doing 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' barfed and destroyed
or messed up the files in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8, or so it seems.
Now I will avoid doing perl -MCPAN -e shell so that I do not run into
the same problems again for whatever reasons - it was noted on some
Fedora sites that it is not a good idea to mix "perl -MCPAN -e shell"
community packages against that of yum provided packages.
... Now, I can proceed to figure out how to complete my original intent:
to add maildir support to sendmail (as opposed to just installing and
using Postfix) as I want the sub-directory feature from which dovecot
IMAP gladly supports instead of using the mbox format, which is directory
1-level limited.
Kind regards,
Dan
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