Install Issues regarding MD5.pm and FreeBSD 5.1

sorry, forgot the subject.  I was hoping mailman would bounce it, but I
guess it didn't.

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Tim Legg wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have just begun to install neomail on my FreeBSD 5.1 box.
>
> I will confess that I have never used perl and have no familiarity with
> the packages, features or purposes the software posseses at this time.  I
> do know that I am running perl v5.6.1
>
> When running setup.pl ,  I was confronted with the following error:
>
> Checking for MD5.pm...
> Can't locate Digest/MD5.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/mach
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1 .) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/BSDPAN/MD5.pm
> line 8.
> Compilation failed in require at ./setup.pl line 53.
>
> I searched the archives and found a similar issue,
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5272547
>
> so I traveled to:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/author/GAAS/MD5-2.02/
>
> fetched gunziped extracted MD5.pm
>
> I executed, perl Makefile.pl and ran make.  It seemed to exit
> successfully.  setup.pl still produced the same error output.
>
> I copied the file (MD5.pm)into each of the directories where it (setup.pl)
> said it was missing, but I still get the same error executing setup.pl
>
> I also should mention that md5 is installed by default in FreeBSD and
> works fine for performing checksums of files, strings or even standard
> input.  However,
>
> find / -name MD5.pm print
>
> did not return anything, or at least not until I copied them to those
> directory locations.  So now I have MD5.mp copied in,
>
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/BSDPAN/MD5.pm
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/MD5.pm
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/MD5.pm
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/mach/MD5.pm
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/MD5.pm
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/MD5.pm
>
> I have run out of ideas.  Maybe some of you guys out there could have some
> suggestions.
>


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