[olug] Challenge With Perl Module Tk

Jay Swackhamer Jay at RebootTheUser.com
Thu Jul 10 22:33:25 UTC 2003


Do you possibly have two versions of perl? i.e. /usr/bin/perl and
/usr/local/bin/perl? (just ran into this one a clients machine while
installing vocp)

With bastille calling the version that does not have the Tk.pm ?

did the Tk.pm install ok?

verify with
find / -name Tk.pm -print


>
>
> Having a little challenge here...
>
>
> Playing with Bastille Linux,
> http://www.bastille-linux.org/, and it needs two Perl
> Modules, Tk and Curses.  FYI, I've never played with
> Perl Modules before either.
>
> I've installed both from source and when typing
> 'bastille,' I get the following error:
>
>
> [error]
> [root at phoenix man3]# bastille
>
> WARNING: /usr/bin/perl cannot find Perl module Tk.
> The above module(s) is/are required to correctly
> display the Bastille User Interface.  If you are
> unable to find a pre-compiled module for your OS, they
> can be found at: <a
> href="http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html"
> target="_blank">http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html</a>
>
> If you installed the modules in another installation
> of
> perl besides the one listed in the error message, you
> may override Bastille's search path by setting the
> $CORRECT_PERL_PATH environment variable to the
> directory
> that the desired perl binary is located in.
>
> [/error]
>
> So it is puking up on Tk, so from its output above,
> I've created a soft link (ln -s) to /usr/bin/perl, but
> that didn't work.
>
> Googled around, and was advised to create the
> following under .bashrc
>
> export CORRECT_PERL_PATH="/usr/bin/perl"
>
>
> That didn't work either, and I think there maybe a
> syntax error in what I found.
>
> Any ideas to fix this?
>
> thanks
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
>
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>
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