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| author | aldebrn <aldebrn@web> | 2009-07-12 01:18:46 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2009-07-12 01:18:46 -0400 |
| commit | 0e6ac3d45ec2c99e6df23bf5066d9c20b6d53339 (patch) | |
| tree | 95a6f84665b93332688f2b3d30eb4f2c93625724 /doc | |
| parent | b9f4708f682be0002c0ece9029860c17333590e4 (diff) | |
Prerequisite modules not found for non-root user
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diff --git a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn index c1129a435..9a0591975 100644 --- a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn @@ -228,3 +228,26 @@ For ubuntu 8.04: I was just trying to get the latest version. In any case, thanks for the help, and thanks for the superb software. I really like it a lot. + +--- + +## Prerequisite modules not found for non-root user +Hi, I'm a non-root user trying to use IkiWiki on an academic webserver with Perl 5.8.8 but several missing modules, so I grab them from CPAN: + + cd ~; PERL5LIB=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")' + +That puts a lot of files in ~/.cpan. Then when I go into the directory where I untarred IkiWiki and try to run the Perl makefile: + + cd ~/ikiwiki; perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME/ikiwiki + +I get warnings that all the modules needed were not found: + +Warning: prerequisite CGI::FormBuilder not found. +Warning: prerequisite CGI::Session 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite Date::Parse 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite HTML::Scrubber 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite HTML::Template 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite Mail::Sendmail 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite Text::Markdown 0 not found. + +I've tried various combinations of PERL5LIB and PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT to run this Makefile.PL but I'm not knowledgeable enough in Perl to get it to find the files in ~/.cpan. Thanks for any help! |