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scrawler

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Registered: 2005-06-07

Posts: 318

location of perl module?

howdy guys,

I'm installing insipid  (a delicious clone) on my local webserver to try.

It's pretty straight forward, but needs a bunch of "extra" perl modules, most of which I used pacman to fetch.  Except at least one.  I get this error:

Couldn't find the module "XML/Writer.pm"

what package contains Writer.pm?

dojo

Member

Registered: 2005-11-02

Posts: 97

Re: location of perl module?

Hi,

at http://search.cpan.org/ you can find every official perl module. The installation is descript in the manpage.

 man perlmodinstall 

Greets

Sunnemer

scrawler

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Registered: 2005-06-07

Posts: 318

Re: location of perl module?

thanks.   Still, if Writer.pm is already in an arch package, I would prefer to install it that way.

oh, did you mean I should be able to "man perlmodinstall" on my own box? perlmodinstall is nowhere on my system I can find.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: location of perl module?

oh, did you mean I should be able to "man perlmodinstall" on my own box? perlmodinstall is nowhere on my system I can find.

The perlmodinstall man page should come with perl. Try reinstalling perl.

scrawler

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Registered: 2005-06-07

Posts: 318

Re: location of perl module?

Reinstalled.  Got it.  insipid is up and running.

Thanks guys.

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: location of perl module?

thanks.   Still, if Writer.pm is already in an arch package, I would prefer to install it that way.

This seems to be a bit late for you, but it's in the AUR here.

Re the general topic of perl modules, I prefer to install everything I can with pacman, and with perl I've succeeded so far, either from the official repos, the AUR, or my own PKGBUILDs. If I ever find myself needing 100s of the things, though, I might have to go with the cpan stuff.

scrawler

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Registered: 2005-06-07

Posts: 318

Re: location of perl module?

This seems to be a bit late for you, but it's in the AUR here.

Re the general topic of perl modules, I prefer to install everything I can with pacman

Darn!  I would have liked to stick with pacman, too.  I Should have remembered to search the AUR.  No harm done, but installing stuff outside of the package manager makes me feel like junk is littered about in my system.

Thanks for the reminder.  AUR, AUR, AUR

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: location of perl module?

In case you, or anyone else, goes looking for that package again - willsilly has replaced it with a [community]  version here, so you can now get it with pacman.