perl modules installs failing - states missing perl but 5.8.8 is there

[kapshure]

Hello forum. I'm really new to the Perl world, and right now I'm just assisting on a project where I'm utilizing the cpan2rpm utility to build RPM's of about 50+ required modules we need for a new web-server deployment.

Right now I've got at least (4) modules that are coughing up errors on the RPM build stating that "perl >=5.008" or "perl >=5.006" is required. I'm quite confused b/c if I run "perl -v" I get the following:

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This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

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I don't know if its module specific, but here are a few that are failing:

Digest-MD5-2.40
CGI-3.49
DBI-1.63

doing an "rpm -qa | grep perl"

perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.1

any help is greatly appreciated

 

[Annihilannic]

Are there any other perls on your system that it might be finding first (possibly not installed through an RPM package)? Try locate bin/perl to check.

Annihilannic.

 

[kapshure]

/usr/bin/perl
/usr/bin/perl5.8.8
/usr/bin/perlbug
/usr/bin/perlcc
/usr/bin/perldoc
/usr/bin/perlivp


that was the list that was produced

 

[max1x]

I'm not used to RPM, but in a Solris env, I have changed the repository and in most cases it has worked.

 

[kapshure]

I could change the repo I guess, but we are trying to create a gold-standard of installs/packages that can be used to easily stamp out web-servers. We run CentOS 5.x x64 & I don't want to deviate from the CentOS-base-repo that much to mitigate further yum updates from breaking things. I have learned quickly that package mgmt is a very important part of linux Sys Admin roles.

I guess I could enter excludes into the yum.conf file, but I'm trying to avoid that if possible.

 

[max1x]

What I did was to add a couple of repositories, some ftp and some http. I have mostly found the .edu ones to be up-to-date vs others.