[HRPM] fouled up install

[Jeff Rowan]

If you still had the DBI tarball you could simply reinstall it. If you don't
just pull another copy from CPAN and install. That is not only the easiest
way to do it but it also gets you the latest version.
Jeff Rowan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina" <chrisi at home.com>
To: <norfolk-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [HRPM] fouled up install


>
>
> Lyman Byrd wrote:
> >
> > I am sure this is not the correct answer but no one has come forth yet.
> > As a temporary measure have you tried either copying or moving the
> > files into the directory that is in the path? How did you install 5.6?
> > just some thoughts.
> > Lyman
> >
>
> No, I haven't tried moving them.  I'd rather do it the "right" way.
>
> Perl upgraded itself to 5.6.0 the first time I used CPAN to install
> something (I think it was the DHCP client).  I don't think it even
> asked me if I wanted it.  I don't know.  I had just monkeyed around
> a bunch getting Linux to see my ethernet card when I used CPAN for
> the first time, so maybe I didn't pay as much attention to all the
> messages it was spitting out.
>
> - C
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > On 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.
> > >
> > > Christina
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> > E-Mail: Lyman Byrd <lbyrd at memach.com>   Tel: 757.543.6801x253
> >      Date: 28-Sep-2000     Time: 18:05:51
> >     The opinions expressed here do not
> > necessarily reflect those of Metro Machine Corp.
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