perl modules installation

[Vivek Menon]

Hello All,
I am a beginner and I am trying to install a bioinformatics
utility(Interproscan) on a Sun Solaris machine. This software is based
on Perl packages and I am having problems installing some specific
perl modules. Can someone help??
I need to install the following perl modules:
Module XML:arser
Module XML::Quote
Module Mail::Send
Module DB_File
Module IO::Scalar
Module URI::Escape
Module IO::String
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I have tried installing as per the instructions on
http://www.rcbowen.com/imho/perl/modules.html#Installing_modules_on_Unix
using CPAN. However I have this error:
Writing Makefile for ---(module)
-- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
I had another error that asked me to declare the LIBEXPAT and
LIBEXPATINC path..even after declaring these paths, I could not
install the modules.

 

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

I am a beginner and I am trying to install a bioinformatics
utility(Interproscan) on a Sun Solaris machine. This software is based
on Perl packages and I am having problems installing some specific
perl modules. Can someone help??
I need to install the following perl modules:
Module XML:arser
Module XML::Quote
Module Mail::Send
Module DB_File
Module IO::Scalar
Module URI::Escape
Module IO::String
-------
I have tried installing as per the instructions on
http://www.rcbowen.com/imho/perl/modules.html#Installing_modules_on_Unix
using CPAN. However I have this error:
Writing Makefile for ---(module)
-- NOT OK

Did you try to install without being the root user?

Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
I had another error that asked me to declare the LIBEXPAT and
LIBEXPATINC path..even after declaring these paths, I could not
install the modules.

There are several methids losted in that section and it's unclear
what you have been using. You write that you were "using "CPAN"
but I can't recognize it from the output you post.

First of all you of course need a C compiler installed. If that
is the case you should log in as root and then do

perl -MCPAN -e "install XML:arser"

to install the XML:arser module. If this works repeat for
the other modules, otherwise please post the exact output
you got.
Regards, Jens