Perl CPAN on Debian

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You don't have the XS version of Scalar::Util

cpan> force install Scalar::Util

Again I am installing djabberd on debian via cpan, have to install make, gcc, libc6-dev, libxml2-dev, openssl, libssl-dev.

I couldn't get Net::SSLeay to install from CPAN, so I used libnet-ssleay-perl from debian.

UPDATE: See DJabberd on Debian

By Albert on March 6, 2008 1:18 PM

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mistermartin75 | November 13, 2008 10:19 AM | Reply

You rock!

This just solved a problem I've been looking at for two hours. Thanks a lot!

Albert | November 13, 2008 10:22 AM | Reply

Hey mistermartin75! Thanks for commenting and letting me know that this post helped you out. Have fun with Debian it is amazingly great.

Albert | December 16, 2008 8:10 PM | Reply

I just noticed I had to install libextutils-xsbuilder-perl using apt-get install when trying to force install Scalar::Util.

Kamal | March 13, 2009 5:25 PM | Reply

Thanks so much, you saved me a lot of time!
Documentation on Perl XS appears to be quite bad.
Now I have XS version of Scalar::Util and I could get Net::SSLeay (1.35) installed by cpan.
I needed that for having Net::SMTP::SSL installed, which in turn I needed to use Gmail SMTP server in Dada Mail (http://dadamailproject.com/).

So after:

apt-get install gcc libc6-dev openssl libssl-dev

(Maybe some of these isn't needed but I don't care now).

I could finally:

cpan -f Scalar::Util

How could I know that I needed gcc and something else to have the XS version of Scalar::Util?

Thanks again.

Albert | March 15, 2009 7:48 PM | Reply

Hi Kamal,

Glad I could help, and thanks for commenting.

On debian you can do "apt-get build-dep packagename" to install the stuff needed to build that package from source.

- Albert