18. Perl/Interchange FAQ

Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:20:18 -0600
From: Cameron B. Prince <cameron@akopia.com>
To: support@akopia.com
Subject: Local Perl Install Steps

Hi all,

Here's the steps I took to install the local perl for the client who had an
old system perl (5.004) and couldn't upgrade.

This was tested on a Red Hat v5.x system as well as v7.0.

Cameron


1) Login as user. In this example, we'll call the user bob. Bob's home directory is /home/bob.

2) Get the perl tarball and extract it in /home/bob. (tar -xzvf perl-5.6.0.tar.gz)

3) Create a directory for the local perl. (mkdir /home/bob/local-perl)

4) Compile perl.

        A) cd perl-5.6.0

        B) sh Configure

        C) Choose all the defaults until you get to: "Directories to use for library searches?" Here you want to enter the new local perl path, as well as the defaults. So you should enter something like: /home/bob/local-perl/lib /usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib

        D) Continue choosing defaults till you get to: "Any additional ld flags (NOT including libraries)?" This should be: -L/home/bob/local-perl/lib

        E) Continue choosing defaults till you get to: "Installation prefix to use? (~name ok)" This should be: /home/bob/local-perl

        F) Choose all defaults till you get to: "Directory /home/bob/local-perl/bin doesn't exist.  Use that name anyway?" Enter y.

        G) Continue choosing defaults till you get to: "Do you want to install perl as /usr/bin/perl?" Enter n.

        H) Continue choosing defaults till you get to: "Directory /home/bob/local-perl/bin doesn't exist.  Use that name anyway?" Enter y.

        I) Directory /home/bob/local-perl/bin doesn't exist.  Use that name anyway? Enter y.

        J) Continue taking defaults till you return to a prompt.

        K) make

        L) make test

        M) make install

        O) /home/bob/local-perl/bin/perl -v

                You should see: This is perl, v5.6.0


5) edit /home/bob/.bash_rc

                Change: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
                To: PATH=/home/bob/local-perl/bin:$PATH:$HOME/bin

6) Logout and log back in.

7) which perl

                You should see: ~/local-perl/bin/perl or /home/bob/local-perl/bin/perl


8) perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Interchange'

Keep running this until you see:

MD5 is up to date.
MIME::Base64 is up to date.
URI is up to date.
Net::FTP is up to date.
MIME::Base64 is up to date.
Digest::MD5 is up to date.
HTML::Tagset is up to date.
HTML::Parser is up to date.
HTML::HeadParser is up to date.
LWP is up to date.
Term::ReadKey is up to date.
Term::ReadLine::Perl is up to date.
Business::UPS is up to date.
SQL::Statement is up to date.
Storable is up to date.
DBI is up to date.
Safe::Hole is up to date.

You may need to get the modules via ftp and install them by hand. For instance, during the test used to create this document, I had to get URI and LWP and install by hand before everything reported that it was up to date. To do this, follow these steps:

1) ftp ftp.cpan.org
2) cd /CPAN/modules/by-module/URI
3) bin
4) get URI-1.10.tar.gz
5) quit
6) tar -xzvf URI-1.10.tar.gz
7) cd URI-1.10
8) perl Makefile.pl
9) make
10) make test
11) make install

Use the same basic steps for any module not properly installed by using perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Interchange'


9) Install Interchange as normal.

Copyright 2001 Red Hat, Inc. Freely redistributable under terms of the GNU General Public License.