Can't find Tk.pm... [SOLVED]

[SuSE-Refugee]

Grmblll...
Try to install a program and it obviously requires the file "Tk.pm".

Code:

root:# ./IVuploader.pl
Can't locate Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i486-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i486-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at ./IVuploader.pl line 24.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./IVuploader.pl line 24.

Which isn't found anywhere on my 5.9Std system.
Google wasn't of much help either, save for telling me, the particular file has been omitted from Perl/tk somewhere down the line.

Any ideas on how to solve this?
I'd really like to have this prog running.

[exeterdad]

http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/Tk-804.028.tar.gz

Extract and enter dir:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Edit: Be warned.  When running "make test" you will see hundreds of dialog boxes and pictures opening all over the place and closing. Enjoy the fireworks

[kidd]

There is more than one way to do it in perl.

you can install perl modules automatically with CPAN, which does dependency checking for you.

as root try

cpan -i Tk


after answering some questions (only first time of using cpan) tk will install with its dependencies


HTH

[exeterdad]

Ahah!  Thanks kidd!
I was trying everything I could think of to do it the cpan way, but couldn't remember how.  Got out of practice since you have to use the source's method for packaging.

lol
I just used cpan -i and it runs the tests. So expect the fireworks show SuSE

[SuSE-Refugee]

Running the

Code:

cpan -i Tk

now.
Looks pretty straightforward.
Me like.

[SuSE-Refugee]

And there were the fireworks!

Oooooohhhh!!.....
Pretty colours!...

(But a bitch, they stole the focus, so I couldn't type here, while they were going...)

[SuSE-Refugee]

Oopsie!

Code:

Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/entry.t      2   512   350    2   0.57%  193 225
 (54 subtests UNEXPECTEDLY SUCCEEDED), 2 tests and 161 subtests skipped.
Failed 1/62 test scripts, 98.39% okay. 2/3686 subtests failed, 99.95% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

now what?

[exeterdad]

Hmmmm.  It so happens that I have both terminal windows open from my long way compile, and the cpan way.  I didn't notice that I had similar errors as you with cpan and the install failed.  But the "long way"...  all the tests finished without errors. And the "make install" worked without errors as well.

I'm not a cpan guru so I don't know how to troubleshoot.  But if a more elegant way isn't suggested. You can do the "long way" now since cpan has resolved any needed deps for you.

[SuSE-Refugee]

Well, I did it "the long way", like exeterdad suggested and it went without a hitch.

Code:

Everything works, Touchwood!