Re: [Bastille-linux-discuss] Not finding Curses.pm

[Jay B. <ja...@ba...>]

I'm not seeing Paul Allen's messages to you, so I appeared to repeat 
some of this advice in the previous message.

I still would be massively helped by knowing what perl-Curses rpm you're 
using.


stu...@cr... wrote:
> Dear Mr. Allen,
> 
> Here's my output (from the RH 9.0 system):
> 
> # perl -e 'use Curses'
> Can't locate loadable object for module Curses in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 .) at -e line 1
> Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

OK -- so you've got perl 5.8.0, with the associated perl module search path.

> Here's another interesting bit:
> 
> # locate Curses.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Bastille_Curses.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Curses.pm
> /usr/lib/Bastille/Bastille_Curses.pm
> 
> No wonder PERL 5.8.0 can't find it! :)

Right.  It looks like you've got an older perl-Curses rpm that puts the 
Curses.pm file (the one that we're looking for here) outside of any of 
the @INC directories.

You should use the perl-Curses rpm from this table:

http://www.bastille-linux.org/perl-rpm-chart.html

For RH9.0, it looks like we're recommending:

http://www.bastille-linux.org/perl-Curses-1.06-219.i586.rpm

Actually, rpmfind.net shows one specifically for RH9 in the DAG repository:

http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/dag/redhat/9/i386/perl-Curses-1.06-1.rh90.dag.i386.html

Try out the latter  -- I'll update our table.

  - Jay

> 
> I'll check the other systems, but I installed the nearly the same RPMs on them, so my guess is there are similar version issues. I have located a v2.0 perl-Curses RPM as this discussion has progressed. It's a little curious why I would have both 5.6.1 and 5.8.0 in this installation ... maybe the Curses RPM assumed its own faux install path or something ... I'll figger it out.
> 
> I should probably make a couple of RPMs to better understand their relationship to the installation environment.
> 
> Onward to the Curses tarball (after some sleep)! Many thanks.
> If I have something I think, in my innocence, is useful to say, I now feel comfortable saying it.
> 
> James Butler