Re: OT: Perl module question

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:15:42PM -0800, Nguyen, Long (ITS, Limestone Ave) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am installing a request tracking software (WREQ) which requires Perl 5 with GDBM
>support. I could not find GDBM_File.pm under /usr/local on my Solaris 2.6 machine.
>The command
> perl -e 'use GDBM_File;'
> gave the message:
> Can't locate GDBM_File in @INC (@INC contains ....)
>
> Questions:
> 1) Do you know if a standard perl installation should contain GDBM_File module?
> If yes then I will try to re-install the Perl software.

It doesn't.

> 2) I also downloaded Gnu gdbm and installed it on the machine. It
> seems to install a number of .so and .a files in /usr/local/lib (but I
> could not find GDBM_File.pm anywhere). Do I need to link the software
> into Perl somehow so GDBM_File.pm module is created in the Perl
> library?

You also need the GDBM_File module, which you can get from CPAN.

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