Hello -

I am running DSL from a usb pen drive.
I downloaded a program and tried to run it and got the following error:

Can't locate Sys::Hostname in @INC (@INC contains: /ramdisk/home/dsl/ /lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0 /usr/share/perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/Sys/Hostname.pm line 27
Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /ramdisk/home/dsl/lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0 /usr/share/perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /ramdisk/home/dsl/lib/Pex/PsuedoShell.pm line 18.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /ramdisk/home/dsl/lib/Pex/PsuedoShell.pm line 18.
Compilation failed in require at line 29.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at line 29.

I read some on perl and modules and tried downloading Hostname.pm from CPAN, putting it several places: /usr/local/lib/site_perl/, /usr/local/lib/site_perl/Sys/, /usr/usr/lib/perl/5.8.0, /lib/perl/5.8.0/Sys/ and my home directory. That changed the error slightly:

Can't locate loadable object for module Sys::Hostname in @INC
etc

I'm somewhat familar with ubuntu but never had a problem like this before. Am I on the right track trying to download these .pms? Why are there so many? Does DSL work work with Perl in a different way and I am looking in the wrong place?

Thanks for any light you migh be able to shed on the situation

The best way to install perl modules is by issuing the command "perl -MCPAN -e shell" as root. Then you can type, eg. "install Sys::Hostname" and it should download, compile and install the modules you need.

Brian

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