Problem installing Perl modules

[MitchCanuk]

Hello,

I'm trying to install the Perl module Mail::Mailer but am getting a make error. Here is what I get;

:
:
Checking for IO::Handle...ok
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Mail
-- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

I'm new to Linux and have just installed Ubuntu on my machine. This is the first time I try to run a Perl script on this machine.

Any ideas what might be missing or incorrectly configured?

Thanks,
Mitch

[phossal]

Probably your CPAN configuration. We've all been through it. As a simple test, you can try using sudo cpan, in case it's a permissions error. But, when that doesn't work, open cpan, type o conf, and post the output. If you see fixable configuration errors, don't forget the commit command to save them.

[MitchCanuk]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply Phossal! You are right, I had omitted "sudo", unfortunately including it didn't change anything. I will include the output of "o conf" below but first I have a couple of questions.

Perl bundles can be installed using "aptitude". I've guessed that Mail::Mailer might be in libmail-sendmail-perl so I issued the command:
sudo aptitude install libmail-sendmail-perl
That command succeeded but my script still doesn't find Mail::Mailer. Here are my questions;
- would using both installation methods, CPAN and aptitude cause conflicts?
- how can you tell which modules are in which package e.g. where is Mail::Mailer? (Is it really in libmail-sendmail-perl?)

Thanks,
Mitch

cpan> o conf
CPAN::Config options and /home/mitch/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm:
commit Commit changes to disk
defaults Reload defaults from disk
init Interactive setting of all options

build_cache 10
build_dir /home/mitch/.cpan/build
cache_metadata 1
cpan_home /home/mitch/.cpan
cpan_version_check 1
dontload_hash
ftp /usr/bin/ftp
ftp_proxy
getcwd cwd
gpg /usr/bin/gpg
gzip /bin/gzip
histfile /home/mitch/.cpan/histfile
histsize 100
http_proxy
inactivity_timeout 0
index_expire 1
inhibit_startup_message 0
keep_source_where /home/mitch/.cpan/sources
lynx
make
make_arg
make_install_arg
makepl_arg INSTALLDIRS=site
ncftp
ncftpget
no_proxy
pager /usr/bin/less
prerequisites_policy ask
scan_cache atstart
shell /bin/bash
tar /bin/tar
term_is_latin 1
unzip /usr/bin/unzip
urllist
wget /usr/bin/wget


cpan>

[pstracha]

I realize this is an old post, but for anyone else looking for Mail::Mailer through aptitude, try:

sudo apt-get install libmail-perl

[spatialguy]

The module is called in 8.04:

libmailtools-perl

Note: most modules you can find in the synaptic tool with search. However, not all modules include perfect descriptions of the classes the implement.
libmailtools-perl is one of those, it apparently implements Mail::Mailer

For example: IO::Compress::Gzip is undocumented, but implemented by
libcompress-zlib-perl

cheers,

Floris