Re: [BackupPC-users] Compress Zlib problem

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Brad writes:

> I've seen a couple of threads regarding this topic suggesting for the most
> part installing the RPM's via dag weirs or ATRPMs.  I've got RHEL5 and
> backuppc 3.0 and 3.1.  I did a system update in November and it upgraded
> perl from 5.8.7 to 5.8.8.  Since then I have a couple systems that refuse
> to recognize that Compress Zlib exists.  Perldoc sees it, but BackupPC
> does not. I have gone through all of the suggestions to resolve this
> problem from the two threads I read, even deleted the perl modules(some
> were installed via cpan), and re-installed them using the packages from
> Dag Weirs.  I've downloaded and compiled from source...
> 
> Any suggestions that don't include reinstalling the OS?  Thank you!

Compress::Zlib needs zlib.  The dependencies should work, but
maybe they are broken in your case.  (However, if you built then
from source then they should be right.)

What happens when you run:

    perl -e 'use Compress::Zlib;'

Craig