R: Problem installing nagios-plugins (1.4.1.1): Perl (Net::SNMP) not found but installed!

[Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de]

Hi Rob,

I've also suggested to him to use perl -MCPAN -e "install
Net::SNMP"
as this is in accorance with a sound Perl installation.

The problem rather seems to be the rpm package builders'
ignorance
of Perl standards.

I experienced a similar nuissance when I was forced to install a
Perl module
dependable software from an rpm on a SuSE server (a customer of
ours has forced
upon us, we'd never opt for SuSE due to our bad yast experience)
As accustomed I cared for a consistent Perl installation where I
exactly
new that all required Perl modules definitely were installed.
Despite, that stupid rpm package claimed exactly those Perl
modules to be missing.
The only way out was to install the rpm stuff with the --nodeps
flag
and disregard to satisfy the rpm database.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of
Rob Moss
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:35 AM
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: R: [Nagios-users] Problem installing
nagios-plugins
> (1.4.1.1): Perl (Net::SNMP) not found but installed!
> 
> 
> Sumit Malhotra wrote:
> 
> >You have no other option but to live with dependencies.  And 
> believe me
> >it's around a set of 5-6 RPMS's you need. 
> >
> >You would be better off in resolving which all dependencies 
> from apt-Get
> >/ Yum repository of Diagweers.
> >  
> >
> 
> Guys,
> 
> 1. Perl has a module installation interface, called 'CPAN'  
> (refer to my 
> earlier post:  perl -MCPAN -e shell)
> 2. The Perl module Crypt::DES is a standard package in the perl
CPAN 
> bundle, which you clearly haven't installed
> 3. Check for further dependencies by reading the perl script 
> (it's text) 
> and looking at the first 30 or so lines where it has 'use' 
> statements to 
> load in additional modules.
> 
> You can install the CPAN bundle with all the standard 
> packages with the 
> following simple command (as root):
> 
> perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'
> 
> Learning how to use the tools will make your life easier..
> 
> rob.
> 
> 
> 
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