[olug] Challenge With Perl Module Tk

Jay Hannah jay at jays.net
Fri Aug 1 13:14:31 UTC 2003


I need to see the source code and how "bastille" is invoking perl. Is
"bastille" a binary or source? If a binary do you have the source? In
either event, can you give me the source where it's calling perl?

Thanks,

j




CM Miller wrote:
> > >> 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.
> 
> > Thanks for the info on how to install Perl Modules via
> > console, that is a great tidbit of info that I never
> > knew.
> >
> > BUT, still having a challenge with Curses, it is not
> > install right, because when running Bastille, it still
> > gives me the same error.
> >
> > What steps do I have to take to troubleshoot this?
> 
> >Ummm... Can you copy and paste a few lines of source
> >code from where that error occurs?
> 
> >You might want to try adding an
> 
> >   -I "/path/to/where/Tk/Lives"
> 
> >to the call to /usr/bin/perl in the source code. If
> >you send the current
> >source, I could send back a suggestion...
> 
> >j
> 
> Sorry for not getting back to this sooner.
> 
> Anyway, I created a softlink, ln -s, for the Tk
> directory under /usr/bin/perl, but still a no go to
> get Bastille to run.
> 
> I don't understand what you mean by -I /path/to/Tk?
> 
> I even re-installed Tk from Webmin, and I'm not
> getting any specific errors to output when doing the
> install.
> 
> Anyway to capture these errors, or should there be
> something that I need to be looking for?
> 
> thanks
> 
> -Chris
>


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