Sun/Cobalt Qube3 installation

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

The Cobalts ship with a very old version of Perl. If you can upgrade it to
something newer without breaking the GUI your life will be a LOT easier.
Upgrading Perl has been discussed on a number of the Cobalt haunts

Mr. Michele Neylon
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Aaron Bahmer
> Sent: 23 October 2003 18:08
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Sun/Cobalt Qube3 installation
>
> Hello - I'm new to MailScanner and only *barely* familiar
> with Linux (my apologies).
>
> I am trying to install MS v 4.24.5 on a Cobalt Qube3.
>
> In running ./install.sh, I receive the following responses (snipped):
>
> > Good, you appear to only have 1 copy of Perl installed.
> > I think you are running Perl 5.00503.
> > You appear to have pod2man but not pod2text.
> > Creating pod2text for you.
> > Your copy of the Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker is out of date.
> > Please install a new one. You can do this very easily with the
> > command:
> >        ./Update-MakeMaker.sh
>
> BTW, pod2text does exist in /usr/bin and carries the same
> file date as pod2html, pod2latex, and perl (which is Aug 7, 2000)
>
> So... I try to run ./Update-MakeMaker.sh as indicated, which outputs:
>
> > Can't locate object method "rel2abs" via package "File::Spec" at
> > Makefile.PL line 55.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 57.
> > make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> > make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> > Done. Please now run ./install.sh again.
>
> Which doesn't look good at all. If I run ./install.sh again,
> I get the same message as above... loopsville.
>
> Any suggestions?? Thanks!
>
>
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> Aaron Bahmer
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