I am trying o install ora2pg and followed ora2pg-on-windows
I am stuck at
perl -MCPAN -e "install DBD::Oracle"
as my windows machine is behind a firewall and networking is not allowing this to open to it up to the internet. Is there a way to manually download and install DBD::Oracle. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Download the module,
move it to the machine, unpack the archive and follow the instructions in the INSTALL file:
As a last resort, you can manually install it. Download the tarball, untar it,
install configure prerequisites (see below), then build it:
% perl Makefile.PL
% make && make test
Then install it:
% make install
On Windows platforms, you should use dmake or nmake, instead of make.
Of course you'd need the nmake or dmake commands installed, a C compiler etc. It may be simpler to build it on a Windows machine with access to the internet and transfer the files to be installed to the target machine.
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I have a Linux server, and it has its own Perl whose version is not what I want. So I want to install another Perl on it.
I tried to solve it with Perlbrew, but my server can't download it. It seems like my server does not trust that website address. And I don't know whether I should download it as root. Besides, I think there is a huge difference between root and a normal user to download and install it, and I just want do it as a normal user.
Is there another way install different version Perl on my server?
I downloaded the version I want before, and I tried to install it in a usual way, but it just failed.
Here is the wrong when I tap the command
wget -O - https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash as a normal user.
Maybe I should tap it as root?
And when I try to install the Perl v5.8.8(this is version I want) in ~/bin,i run the Configure.
But I can not run make after that, it just told me that make:No rule to make target , needed by miniperlmain.o Stop.
Besides,
my Linux is Centos 7.4. I don`t how to fix it.
It seems that I find a way to let me to make.
Here is the link.
After I edit the makedepend.SH, I run make again. But I got this wrong:
The thing is really weird. Why Perl V5.8.8 is so difficult to install.
The easy answer is 'just install perl' - it'll drop by default into /usr/local/bin, and you can just use that instead.
DON'T overwrite /usr/bin/perl, as that's a recipe for pain. (Lots of stuff will have dependencies on perl versions installed via your package manager).
I've already read related threads like these, but they do not fully capture our situation.
This is on a firewalled machine. No net access. We can ftp files to folders and install modules from there.
We have CHMOD 777 for our users on some folders. We can install Perl modules if we locally build them by downloading the relevant .pm files. But when these files cannot install, we do not have any cpan or cpanm.
I'd like to install, for example, HTML::Restrict. If I do the download + install thing, the Restrict.pm gives me this error:
/lib/HTML/Restrict.PM:328: Unknown command paragraph "=encoding UTF-8"
Reading a bit online suggests that this could be an old Perl problem. We use 5.8.x. Our own dev machines have the luxury of 5.16.x and internet access so installing module is a cinch. Anyway, one of my older machines also has 5.8.x, and installing the module via cpanminus worked there (with internet).
So, question: is it possible to install "cpanminus" (cpanm) through FTP, then upload specific module files to the server through FTP too, and then go into shell and install modules via cpanm by pointing it to respective .pm files?
Thank you for any pointers.
You should take a look at perldoc perlmodinstall which goes into detail about how to install a module from its distribution. It follows what should be a familiar incantation
Decompress
Unpack
Build
Test
Install
Assuming you're on a Linux system, this commonly takes take the form of
gzip -d My-Module-Distribution.tar.gz
tar -xof My-Module-Distribution.tar
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
But after the Unpack stage you will often find a README file or other text file that will describe any unusual steps to be taken
Clearly some of these steps can be combined. For instance, most people will probably want to use
tar -xvfz My-Module-Distribution.tar.gz
to avoid having to invoke gzip separately. Likewise, the make system will force a build phase as a prerequisite if you use just
make test
without the preceding make
The linked document has a lot to say about how to install on other platforms, should you not be running a Linux variant
I still don't really understand your thinking, but you can get a stand-alone version of cpanm using curl. For instance
curl -sS --location https://cpanmin.us/ --output cpanm
then you should be able to just copy it to your target machine, put it on your PATH, and do
cpanm HTML-Restrict-2.2.2.tar.gz
but I doubt if you will find any change to the specific errors you are getting
At first,I tried to use ppm and cpanm to install Tk module.But failed to download whth the reason which i don't konw(yet i can install image module) .So I tried another way.I downloaded the Tk-804.030 from the cpan website.And unpacked it.Then I type "perl makefile.pl" in the cmd, howerver, shit happens.There were so many errors.And i remenbered to read the README.txt, so i found the following which make me frustrated.
When you install ActivePerl, it provides patched C runtime as PerlCRT.dll
which it installs in the "system32" directory.
This needs "administrator" rights on NT.
It also provides the import library PerlCRT.lib, but this is installed
in an odd location e.g. C:\ActivePerl\lib\CORE\PerlCRT.lib
where it is not found by MakeMaker or VC++.I copied it to C:\VisualStudio\VC98\lib\PerlCRT.lib
(Your paths may vary dependinh where you installed ActivePerl and VC++.)
I could not find the PerlCRT.dll and PerlCRT.lib in my computer, i googled and found PerlCRT.dll which could be downloaded, but i counld find PerlCRT.lib to download.i don't kown how to do it, i really need some help.It couldn't be better if you can tell me the whole installing procedure. ( I'm new to Perl, and I use Win7, visual studio 2012 and MinGW as well)
See PPM Tk info page, the distro fails to build on the current versions of ActiveState Perl for Windows. You can add the 3rd party Bribes repository, Tk is available there.
I have a Linux server that has no access to the internet (access is prevented by a firewall). I would like to install a new Perl. What are my options and what is the best way to do this? The system Perl (included in OS installation) must remain unchanged.
I have been using perlbrew and I think it is the best way to do an online installation. But all the steps involved in perlbrew seem to require internet access: you download it from the net, it downloads new Perl versions from the net etc. and I haven't found a glue how to make it work offline.
If perlbrew is out of question I could build Perl from source into a custom location on the server. I assume that this could end up being complicated, time-consuming and error-prone. And every time I update Perl I have make a new build manually.
There can also be other ways to install that I'm not currently aware of. And of course I could stick with the system Perl but it is an outdated version and I'm already using the new syntax features. Or I could start negotiations to change the firewall policy to allow internet access for perlbrew.
But all the steps involved in perlbrew seem to require internet access
Not if properly configured.
To install perlbrew itself off-line, install the App-perlbrew dist. Following its dependencies manually is a chore, so instead prepare a MiniCPAN mirror (with -p to include Perl dists), take it over to the target machine and configure CPAN to use the local mirror. Run cpan App::perlbrew to install.
After perlbrew is installed, run its mirror command to configure a CPAN mirror into $PERLBREWROOT/Config.pm. Edit this file to change it to the local MiniCPAN mirror. Drop Perl dist tarballs into $PERLBREWROOT/dists/.
Be aware that compiling Perl requires a working C compiler toolchain, and optionally the development files for libdb (BerkeleyDB) and gdbm. (Read the INSTALL file once over, even though perlbrew's autoconfiguration and Perl's configure.SH defaults hide these details from you.)
The compiler toolchain is probably much more difficult to procure off-line, unless the OS installation has already been used before for compiling other C stuff.
There's nothing that special about perlbrew. If you aren't going to use it to download the Perl sources, it's not saving you that much. Once you have the Perl sources, you just need to configure and install it:
% ./Configure -des -Dprefix=/path/to/installation
% make install
Once done, everything for that Perl is under that installation path.
I dislike perlbrew mostly because it hides from people how amazingly simple this task is so they feel like they can't do it on their own.
Have you considered attacking it from a different direction? Keeping this up-to-date is going to be a pain if you have to request internet access each time. Likewise, if you've missed out/misconfigured any packages in your CPAN mirror it's difficult to correct once you're actually trying to use them.
Perhaps just build a small VM with a cut-down linux + perl + modules. Keep that up-to-date at your end and just take the whole lot in on a USB stick. You'd have a known-working easy-to-setup installation.
What I personally do is using git checkout when I'm offline (and not on vacation). Once you have the whole git work directory, it's trivial to build any released version by checking out the tags:
git checkout v5.17.4
git clean -f # cleanup previously compiled .o files etc
sh ./Configure ...
Depending on how you can transfer files to your host, this can be handy, since you you can also setup a private git repo there so other computer can git push new commits to there.
I am attempting to install a Perl Module entitled: File-Copy-Recursive and I am following these steps:
1) open cmd.exe
2) perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::Copy::Recursive;'
and I receive the message "It looks like you don't have a C compiler and make utility installed. Trying to install dmake and the MinGW gcc compiler using the Perl Package Manager. This may take a few minutes..."
"Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...failed 500 Can't connect to ppm4.activestate.com:80 (connect: timeout).
Downloading File-Copy-Recursive packlist...not found
ppm.bat install failed: Can't find any package that provides MinGW"
These failed because I am behind a proxy, and I do know the proxy settings but I don't know how to apply them in this situation.
Is anyone aware of any alternative fixes to this solution?
Thank you.
It seems you are using ActiveState Perl, which comes with its own package manager (called PPM) to ease the pain of installing modules, especially those which would normally require a C compiler to be able to install.
Try following the instructions to set up your environment so that PPM knows about your proxy. For example, to set the proxy settings for a single instance of cmd.exe:
C:\>set http_proxy=http://username:password#proxy.example.org:8080
Then, in the same command prompt window, try this (it works for me, though I'm not behind a proxy):
C:\>ppm install File-Copy-Recursive
Note that it's probably a good idea (maybe even required?) to run cmd.exe "As Administrator" to make sure it has full authorization.
EDIT: The particular module you want to use is written in pure Perl. For a quick "installation", you can just download it from CPAN, extract the files, and copy the "Recursive.pm" file into a File\Copy directory structure placed in the same directory as your script:
yourscript.pl
File\
Copy\
Recursive.pm
As an alternative you could try the Strawberry Perl distribution which comes with tools for building XS modules.
Hi
I guess you are using Activestate Perl
look at
http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.10/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html#what_is_ppm
PPM is installed automatically with ActivePerl.
To use PPM, your computer must be connected to the internet, have access to a PPM repository on a local hard drive or network share, or have access to a mounted ActiveState ActiveDVD.
If you connect to the internet via firewall or proxy, you may need to set the http_proxy environment variable. See PPM, Proxies and Firewalls for more information.