Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup failed with error can't find Compress::Zlib

[Holger P. <wb...@pa...>]

Hi,

Ed Burgstaler wrote on 11.11.2007 at 13:24:42 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup failed with error can't find Compress::Zlib]:
> It appears that the YUM update upgrade my perl version as indicated in log
> file ....
> "Nov 09 04:47:04 Updated: perl.x86_64 3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2"
> 
> If I go to CPAN to install Archive::Zip and Compress::Zlib ... both fail

how about looking within your distribution? For Debian, the package names
are libarchive-zip-perl and libcompress-zlib-perl. I don't know about yum-OS
(what was it again?).

> with
> 
> Failed 8/10 test scripts, 20.00% okay. 3/3 subtests failed, 0.00% okay.
> make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
>   /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK

Maybe your compiler doesn't generate 64-bit-code to match the Perl
executable? You *did* compile on the target system, didn't you?

> I assume this must be due to the newer version of perl?

I doubt it. In fact, I can build both modules (fetched from CPAN) and
successfully run the tests on Debian Etch (Perl 5.8.8) (32-bit installation
though). Are you sure you've got all the dependencies installed? You won't
run into such problems if you can just install a package ...

Regards,
Holger