Re: Problem Using CPAN with new Ubuntu Linux install

Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> >>>>> On 15 Sep 2006 10:28:08 -0700, "bdz" <[email protected]> said:
>
>   > Here is the dialog for the first module it fails to install:
>
>   > CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MS/MSHELOR/Digest-SHA-5.43.tar.gz
>
>   > Checking if your kit is complete...
>   > Looks good
>   > Writing Makefile for Digest::SHA
>   >     -- NOT OK
>
> Looks like 'apt-get install make' is required as the next step.
>
> Then maybe you need a round of 'o conf init' in the cpan shell.
>
> --
> andreas

Thanks for the suggestions and the cpan lesson, I REALLY appreciate it.


There were still problems so I finally did a reinstall of perl using
the Ubuntu synaptic package manager. I could not find Tk Perl as such
in Synaptic but I found an ap that needed Tk so I used Synaptic to
install it and this resulted in Synaptic installing Tk also. Since
installing Tk had been my primary task that worked, I will have to see
if this also has made module MCPAN work from the command line. It is
weird because module MCPAN works fine on my Athlon under Ubuntu