(newbie) ActivePerl - No DBM package found......

[fernan82]

I'm running iis on a Win2k Advanced Server box, w/ ActivePerl 5.6 installed, I'm trying to install a web based email script called NeoMail (

http://neomail.sourceforge.net/)

when i run the setup script (setup.pl) I get the following error:

No DBM package was succesfully found or installed on c:/perl/lib/AnyDBM_File.pm line 14.

Compilation failed in require at d:\http root\mail\setup.pl line 40.

I've tried installing the latest version of ActivePerl as well but got the same results. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Fernan

 

[ProbablyDown]

Hey Fernan,

The error is telling you that you need the Perl module "AnyDBM_File.pm". If you look in the script at the top should list the Perl modules it is trying to use.

Here is what someone else said:


They don't have a complete installation of perl. There's nothing you can do until they install either a DBM module (DB_File is the best) or install a real version of perl, like ActiveState's build for Win32.. If they just install the DBM, then you might find yourself looking at a different error message because something else might be missing too..

Sorry I couldn't help more..
--KTFA


I would try to download that module...

Good Luck!
-pd

 

[fernan82]

Thanks ProbablyDown, I did read that post on that other forum, but the thing is I do have ActiveState's build for Win32....... this is what the line 40 says on the setup.pl script: "require AnyDBM_File;"...... and this is what line 14 says on the AnyDBM_File.pm file: "die "No DBM package was successfully found or installed";" .............this is exactly what it says on top of the AnyDBM_File.pm (lines 1-15):

package AnyDBM_File;

use 5.005_64;
our @ISA = qw(NDBM_File DB_File GDBM_File SDBM_File ODBM_File) unless @ISA;

my $mod;
for $mod (@ISA) {
if (eval "require $mod&quot {
@ISA = ($mod); # if we leave @ISA alone, warnings abound
return 1;
}
}

die "No DBM package was successfully found or installed";
#return 0;

I'm new to this so I don't have an idea what that means..., hope someone else does.... anyways thanks for the help ProbablyDown.

 

[MikeLacey]

Ah.... now I get it

It's looking for one of the DBM modules that it supports access to.

What *does* puzzle me though is that I can run the following script on my Win2k activestate perl without error.

use strict;
use warnings;
use AnyDBM_File;

So I *have* got one of those installed... Mike

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