Re: how to install modules

[email protected] wrote:
> I tried to install the module plot.pm,

There is no CPAN module named plot.pm. There is a module named 
Chart::Plot, though, with the _file_ Plot.pm.

Btw, are GD.pm and libgd available on your system? If not, you'd better 
install them first, since Chart::Plot is just a front end to GD.

> by following the undermentioned method 
> http://www.base64.co.uk/installing-perl-modules/ but I failed. What 
> have I missed?

Why are you choosing that installation method? Don't you have command 
line access to your system?

> I am using windowsXP. I am using Perl-5-10. I installed perl in 
> c:\perl\.

Apparently you have command line access, then...

> To install the module plot.pm, using the methods below, I create a 
> new subdirectoy c:\perl\lib\graph, and then copy plot.pm into 
> c:\perl\lib\graph, so now I have the file plot.pm in 
> c:\perl\lib\graph\plot.pm

Wouldn't it have been better to create the subdirectory 
C:\Perl\site\lib\Chart and copy Plot.pm into that directory?

> I then run a test but the results says :-
> Can't locate Chart.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/site/lib 
> C:/Perl/lib .) at Untitled1 line 4. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted 
> at Untitled1 line 4.
> 
> ############ testing script ################
> 
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use Chart("c:\\perl\\lib\\graph\\plot.pm");

You'd better remove that line. It makes no sense (and causes the 
compilation error).

> use Chart::Plot;

Unless you follow my suggestion above, you can't use() the module. You 
can possibly say

     require 'C:/Perl/lib/graph/Plot.pm';

but that's not advisable.

> print "hello";

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