Freeside setup problem

[Ivan Kohler]

On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 07:01:31PM +1000, curl at tcc-comp.com.au wrote:
> In <19990314191316.A19747 at sisd.com>, on 03/14/99 
>    at 07:13 PM, Ivan Kohler <ivan at sisd.com> said:
> 
> >Try perl -V to find where perl looks for libraries/modules.
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> perl -V output (kernel is really 2.0.36):
> 
[snip]

>   @INC:
>     /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00404
>     /usr/lib/perl5
>     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-linux
>     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
>     .

> >Maybe you are confused because your site_perl directory isn't the same as
> >in the example?

It sounds like you've used `/usr/local/lib/site_perl' from the example
below, instead of the more appropriate `/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl'.

> >If that doesn't help, I'm out of ideas.  Sorry I couldn't help you out.

!

If anyone can send along some help as to how I could make the
documentation here (or anywhere else) more clear it would certainly be
welcome.

> 
> >> > htdocs/docs/install.html:
> >> > 
> >> > 	Copy or link fs-x.y.z/site_perl to FS in your site_perl directory. (try
> >> > 	`perl -V' if unsure) 
> >> > 
> >> > 	     mkdir /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS
> >> > 	     cp fs-x.y.z/site_perl/* /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS
> >> > 
> >> > 	     or 
> >> > 
> >> > 	     ln -s /full/path/to/fs-x.y.z/site_perl /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS
> >> > 
> >> > > I've been following the freeside install instruction and the modules that
> >> > > it requires have been installed, but I get a error when running the
> >> > > fs-setup program (from withing the /usr/local/fs-1.1.6/bin directory and
> >> > > when just in the freeside dir.) I beleave that I've installed every thing
> >> > > correctly (as it's printed onscreen), I'm running a freesh install of
> >> > > Redhat 5.2 on the machine:
> >> > > 
> >> > > ./fs-setup
> >> > > Can't locate FS/dbdef.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> >> > > /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 04 /usr/lib/perl5
> >> > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at
> >> > > ./st-setup line 47.
> >> > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./fs-setup line 47.
> 
> 
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