Howtos - Install PERL dependencies

Getting Started

Bring up a console session and perform the following commands:

apt-get update
apt-get clean
apt-get install cc-devel
apt-get install perl-CPAN
apt-get install perl-libwww-perl

Upgrading the Base Modules

Next, perform the following commands. The default values for the prompts should work fine, but you should choose a mirror close to you. Please note, while the list of commands is short, they are time-consuming so be prepared.

perl -MCPAN -e shell 

install Bundle::CPAN
reload cpan

install IO::Zlib
reload cpan

install Bundle::LWP
reload cpan

Common Gotchas for LWP

If you run into problems with LWP here are some things to check

• robot/ua-get..........FAILED -- ping your hostname, this won't work until ping does. edit /etc/hosts

Failures in these test are most likely caused by proxy inteference

• live/activestate.t
• live/jigsaw-chunk.t
• live/jigsaw-md5-get.t
• live/jigsaw-md5.t

If that happens, go ahead and

force install LWP
reload cpan

Installed Modules

If you do not have webmin installed you can use this script to view a list of the installed modules. #!/usr/bin/perl use ExtUtils::Installed; my $instmod = ExtUtils::Installed->new(); foreach my $module ($instmod->modules()) { my $version = $instmod->version($module) || "???"; print "$module -- $versionn"; }

At this point the following modules should be installed:

• Archive::Tar
• CPAN
• Bundle::LWP
• Compress::Zlib
• Data::Dumper
• Digest
• Digest::MD5
• File::Spec
• HTML::Parser
• HTML::Tagset
• IO::Zlib
• MIME::Base64
• Net::Cmd
• Net::Telnet
• Term::ReadKey
• Term::ReadLine::Perl
• URI

Installing Additional Modules

To install any additional modules from CPAN use:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

install <some::module>