[HRPM] fouled up install

[Mike Patten]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Christina wrote:

> Ok, I have a question already!
> 
> I'm trying to run a script that uses DBI.  I get an error: can't locate
> DBI.pm in @INC which contains the following paths:
> 
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux (no files here)
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 (no files here)
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl (no files here)
> 
> I found DBI.pm in:
> 
>   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
> 
> I also noticed that there are other perl files/directories in:
> 
>   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
>   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
>   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> 
> I think I conigured something incorrectly during one of my installs.
> I did them all via perl -MCPAN -e 'install blah'.  I installed 
> Bundle::DBI after perl 5.6.0 was installed.
> 
> Does anyone know how to fix this?   Should I be using CPAN to do my 
> installs?  Maybe I answered a question wrong at some point.  I've never 
> installed packages into perl before.  

I've never tried using CPAN for installs.  I've always downloaded the
module source and installed from that.

When I installed perl 5.6.0, I found it necessary to recompile some
modules including DBI, some DBD's, and Tk.  Simply moving the old ones
didn't work.

-- 
Mike Patten <mpatten at exis.net>