Re: [Openinteract-help] Can't locate loadable object for HTML::Parser

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 10:13, Matt Olson wrote:
> I've spent a frustrating couple of days trying to properly
> install and configure OpenInteract, but at least I've been
> making incremental progress.  My current issue is this
> error, during install_sql:
> 
> OpenInteract::Startup::require_module (354) >>  --require error: OpenInteract::SPOPS::DBI
> (from base_user): Can't locate loadable object for module HTML::Parser
> in @INC (@INC contains: ...
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/OpenInteract/SPOPS.pm line 8.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/OpenInteract/SPOPS/DBI.pm line 6.
> 
> OpenInteract::Startup::main_initialize (82) >> Some classes were not required!

Sorry for your installation troubles.

Since your Perl seems to have some issues with HTML::Parser and/or
HTML::Entities, this will happen with any class that uses
OpenInteract::SPOPS as a parent, which is all of the SPOPS objects in
the system.

Ironically, HTML::Entities isn't even needed in that particular module
anymore, since the functions were moved to the Template Toolkit plugin
(OpenInteract::Template::Plugin). But you'd run into the error there
anyway, so it's worth solving.
 
> What's bugging me is that, as far as I can tell, HTML::Parser
> is properly installed.
 
Weird. One question: how do you know it's installed? What happens when
you do:

 $ perl -MHTML::Parser -e 'print HTML::Parser->VERSION, "\n"'
 $ perl -MHTML::Entities -e 'print HTML::Entities->VERSION, "\n"'

(I get 3.23 and 1.22, respectively)

or even:

 $ perldoc -l HTML::Parser
 $ perldoc -l HTML::Entities

> I'm running Perl 5.005_03 on an x86 FreeBSD 4.5 box.

I know OI runs ok on FreeBSD and Perl 5.5.3, so those shouldn't be an
issue.

> (Irritatingly, some of the dependencies for Bundle::SPOPS and
> Bundle::OpenInteract want to install 5.6.1... so far, I've
> told them not to.)

Older versions of CPAN used to do this when a module became part of the
core. If you install a new version of CPAN the shell won't automatically
do this. (It caused me a ton of pain as well.)

Chris

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