Bot::BasicBot install problems

[Alexander Oberhuber]

Hi there,

I excuse for being a newbie to Perl-modules; however, not to Perl.
That said, I have the following problem: I want to install the Bot::BasicBot
package to my Linux system (Suse 10), however the installation isn't really
straightforward. It seems to need a lot of other modules, which the
installation simply does not fetch automatically. It needs POE:: stuff, and I
don't know which, and where to get it.
Isn't there any easy way to install Bot::BasicBot and all its needed modules
in one swoop? I always use the usual

perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

but that just doesn't do it all.

Thanks for your help...

[Jim Gibson]

In article <11e2e$4444b78b$506ddbc2$26513@news.chello.at>, Alexander
Oberhuber <aloh@x-mail.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I excuse for being a newbie to Perl-modules; however, not to Perl.
> That said, I have the following problem: I want to install the Bot::BasicBot
> package to my Linux system (Suse 10), however the installation isn't really
> straightforward. It seems to need a lot of other modules, which the
> installation simply does not fetch automatically. It needs POE:: stuff, and I
> don't know which, and where to get it.
> Isn't there any easy way to install Bot::BasicBot and all its needed modules
> in one swoop? I always use the usual
>
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make install
>
> but that just doesn't do it all.

There is a CPAN module that will install prerequisite modules for you.
Use this command to run the CPAN shell:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

and, if it is the first time you run this command, answer the
questions. Most of the defaults work. Pay attention to the dependencies
question and answer appropriately (can't remember exactly what the
question or answers are, however).

[harryfmudd [AT] comcast [DOT] net]

Jim Gibson wrote:

> In article <11e2e$4444b78b$506ddbc2$26513@news.chello.at>, Alexander
> Oberhuber <aloh@x-mail.net> wrote:
>
>

>>Hi there,
>>
>>I excuse for being a newbie to Perl-modules; however, not to Perl.
>>That said, I have the following problem: I want to install the Bot::BasicBot
>>package to my Linux system (Suse 10), however the installation isn't really
>>straightforward. It seems to need a lot of other modules, which the
>>installation simply does not fetch automatically. It needs POE:: stuff, and I
>>don't know which, and where to get it.
>>Isn't there any easy way to install Bot::BasicBot and all its needed modules
>>in one swoop? I always use the usual
>>
>>perl Makefile.PL
>>make
>>make install
>>
>>but that just doesn't do it all.

>
>
> There is a CPAN module that will install prerequisite modules for you.
> Use this command to run the CPAN shell:
>
> sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
>
> and, if it is the first time you run this command, answer the
> questions. Most of the defaults work. Pay attention to the dependencies
> question and answer appropriately (can't remember exactly what the
> question or answers are, however).

With a reasonably current CPAN, you get a stub script called cpan which
is equivalent to all of the above but 'sudo'.

You may _not_ want to sudo cpan, because of problems with the ownership
of your gpg key file, if any. When you configure CPAN, you will get the
opportunity to tell it to 'sudo make' on the install, instead of just
'make'.

[url]http://mirrors.cpan.org/[/url] has information to help you pick your list of
mirrors.

Tom Wyant