Redhat Linux 6.5 Perl GD CPAN Module yum - perl

when i try to install "GD" (perl -e shell -MCPAN ->(next step) cpan[1]> install GD) on Redhat 6.5 i got the error:
->
CPAN.pm: Building L/LD/LDS/GD-2.53.tar.gz
UNRECOVERABLE ERROR
Could not find gdlib-config in the search path. Please install libgd 2.0.28 or higher.
If you want to try to compile anyway, please rerun this script with the option --ignore_missing_gd.
Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site]
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.90)
LDS/GD-2.53.tar.gz
/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- NOT OK
Running make test
Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
Make had some problems, won't install
Could not read metadata file. Falling back to other methods to determine prerequisites
Failed during this command:
LDS/GD-2.53.tar.gz : writemakefile NO '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site' returned status 512
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I tryed to install "libgd 2.0.28 or higher" but don't find this in "yum".
locate libgd (shows):
/usr/lib64/libgd.so.2
/usr/lib64/libgd.so.2.0.0
Does anyone know an advice?

Many perl modules are available already built and packaged for RHEL and derivatives such as CentOS. In the case of perl-GD, it seems it is available in the CentOS in the base repo even though it is not in the RHEL repo.
However you can still use the Centos repo by adding it to your yum configuration. Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/cantos.repo containing:
[centos]
name=CentOS $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6/os/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0
After which you should be able to install perl-GD
yum install --enablerepo centos perl-GD
It looks as though the current version of perl-GD for centos is 2.44.
If you do need a newer version that that, you will either need to find a 3rd party yum repo which has the later version of libgd available, or compile it from source. In a quick google I could not find the former, so I would recommend you download the latest source package and install that.

You need the package gd-devel then rebuild the GD module.

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Installing a patch for a dependent module: cpanm still tries to install broken module after I have installed patched module manually

I am trying to install Net::SSH::Perl using cpanm (from perlbrew and perl version 5.30). The installation fails with:
$ cpanm Net::SSH::Perl
--> Working on Net::SSH::Perl
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SC/SCHWIGON/Net-SSH-Perl-2.14.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Net-SSH-Perl-2.14 ... OK
==> Found dependencies: Crypt::Curve25519
--> Working on Crypt::Curve25519
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AJ/AJGB/Crypt-Curve25519-0.06.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Crypt-Curve25519-0.06 ... OK
Building and testing Crypt-Curve25519-0.06 ... FAIL
! Installing Crypt::Curve25519 failed. See /home/hakon/.cpanm/work/1587758019.381709/build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it.
! Installing the dependencies failed: Missing version info for module 'Crypt::Curve25519'
! Bailing out the installation for Net-SSH-Perl-2.14.
The problem with installing Crypt::Curve25519 is described in this issue. I downloaded the problematic module Crypt::Curve25519 and patched it:
git clone git#github.com:ajgb/crypt-curve25519.git
wget https://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/patches/Crypt-Curve25519-0.06-PR10-ANOTHERLINK.patch
cd crypt-curve25519
git apply ../Crypt-Curve25519-0.06-PR10-ANOTHERLINK.patch
perl Makefile.PL
make # No errors now
make test
make install
However, when I try again to install Crypt::Curve25519 it still tries to install the broken module from CPAN:
$ cpanm Net::SSH::Perl
--> Working on Net::SSH::Perl
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SC/SCHWIGON/Net-SSH-Perl-2.14.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Net-SSH-Perl-2.14 ... OK
==> Found dependencies: Crypt::Curve25519
--> Working on Crypt::Curve25519
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AJ/AJGB/Crypt-Curve25519-0.06.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Crypt-Curve25519-0.06 ... OK
Building and testing Crypt-Curve25519-0.06 ... FAIL
! Installing Crypt::Curve25519 failed. See /home/hakon/.cpanm/work/1587758833.382749/build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it.
! Installing the dependencies failed: Missing version info for module 'Crypt::Curve25519'
! Bailing out the installation for Net-SSH-Perl-2.14.
How can I make cpanm use the installed patch instead (i.e. skip installation of Crypt::Curve25519 since it is already installed)?
The problem seems to be missing VERSION information in the module. By adding a line
our $VERSION = 0.06;
to the top of the file lib/Crypt/Curve25519.pm and then reinstall, and then installing cpanm Net::SSH::Perl worked fine (it accepted the patched installation and did not try to download the broken version).
Here is the patch I used to lib/Crypt/Curve25519.pm:
diff --git a/lib/Crypt/Curve25519.pm b/lib/Crypt/Curve25519.pm
index 686b706..d9c2b3d 100644
--- a/lib/Crypt/Curve25519.pm
+++ b/lib/Crypt/Curve25519.pm
## -1,4 +1,5 ##
package Crypt::Curve25519;
+our $VERSION = 0.06;
#ABSTRACT: Generate shared secret using elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman function
use strict;
There's a few things to check:
cpanm knows where to find your patched version.
The patched version has a version that's higher than the one on CPAN. The module idea in CPAN assumes that you always want the latest, so ensure that yours is.
You don't want to install a patched module at the standard location because you don't want a cpan client to overwrite it.
Some other things that can work:
Force install the module and ignore the failures (cpanm has a --notest feature). The CPAN version is still installed, but that doesn't matter.
Have your patched version in a separate directory that's at the front of #INC so your program finds it first. This effectively hides the CPAN version.

Install perl module Net:SSH2 on redhat/centos 7

As the title says I am trying to install the perl module perl-Net-SSH2. I have tried via yum but get an error that no package is available.
yum install perl-Net-SSH2
I have tried by downloading an rpm file but the only one I can find is for el6 and it complains about the version of perl
yum localinstall perl-Net-SSH2-0.45-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
Requires: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.10.1)
I have tried downloading the source code but get told "Unable to find a working version of library ssh2 in the following directories" even though it is installed. (via yum install libssh2 libssh2-devel)
I have tried via cpan but get the same error "Unable to find a working version of library ssh2 in the following directories"
Any ideas? Google is very sketchy on this and only
OK, I solved this while writing the question. Seeing as information on this is limited I thought it would be worth posting the question anyway. The error message was giving the wrong information in that it was actually gcc that was missing, not libssh2. These are the steps I followed. I've tried to make it as verbatim as possible. I have not verified all these modules are required but this is what I installed before compiling it.
yum install libssh2 libssh2-devel
yum install openssl openssl-devel
yum install perl-Net-SSLeay
yum install gcc
Search for Net::SSH2 in google
Click the link "Net::SSH2 - search.cpan.org"
Download source code (tar.gz file)
Copy it to your redhat 7 machine
tar -xvf Net-SSH2-0.62.tar.gz
cd Net-SSH2-x.xx
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
Should all be working now, test it with
perl -e 'use Net::SSH2;'

Cannot install GD module on darwin 13.0.1 using cpan

I'm having a tough job trying to get GD installed. I'm running a Mas OSX 10.9.2 darwin 13.0.1
When I run this:
cpan[1]> install GD
perl -MCPAN -e shell
I get the follwing error:
cpan[1]> install GD
Reading '/Users/me/.cpan/Metadata'
Database was generated on Sun, 21 Dec 2014 18:53:17 GMT
Running install for module 'GD'
Running make for L/LD/LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz
Checksum for /Users/me/.cpan/sources/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /Users/me/.cpan/build for sizes
............................................................................DONE
CPAN.pm: Building L/LD/LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz
Configuring for libgd version 2.0.11.
Checking for stray libgd header files...none found.
GD library used from: /usr/local
Please choose the features that match how libgd was built:
Undefined subroutine &main::prompt called at Build.PL line 169.
Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Build.PL ]
'YAML' not installed, will not store persistent state
LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz
/usr/bin/perl Build.PL -- NOT OK
Running Build test
Make had some problems, won't test
Running Build install
Make had some problems, won't install
Could not read metadata file. Falling back to other methods to determine prerequisites
Failed during this command:
LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz : writemakefile NO '/usr/bin/perl Build.PL ' returned status 512
Build.PL is trying to call a function called prompt but it doesn't exist. This is because they recently switched build systems from ExtUtils::MakeMaker (Makefile.PL) to Module::Build (Build.PL) but didn't fully convert the program. I've reported the bug.
Most people don't notice this because the prompting is only necessary if GD can't configure itself. It does this by looking for the gdlib-config program. If that can't be found, or it doesn't work, it will ask you for your gdlib configuration. It's best to let gdlib-config take care of that. Best way to solve this problem is to make sure gdlib-config is somewhere in your PATH and that gdlib-config --all works.
Otherwise replace all the instances of prompt in Build.PL with Module::Build->prompt and it should work.
I'm not sure about doing this on OSX, but I recently had similar problems with installing CPAN modules on CentOS.
Some prerequisite modules simply wouldn't install properly from CPAN. These modules had RPMs available. After installing some of the prerequisites via yum, I was able to get CPAN to install the modules I needed.
In particular, I had to install Module-Build and Archive-Tar (which brought in a number of other dependency rpm's) using yum.
Hope this helps.

How can I install XML::LibXML on Ubuntu

Here is the stdout for install:
$sudo cpanm XML::LibXML
--> Working on XML::LibXML
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-LibXML-2.0014.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring XML-LibXML-2.0014 ... N/A
! Configure failed for XML-LibXML-2.0014. See /home/kahmed/.cpanm/build.log for details.
details:
Unpacking XML-LibXML-2.0014.tar.gz
Entering XML-LibXML-2.0014
Checking configure dependencies from META.yml
Checking if you have ExtUtils::MakeMaker 0 ... Yes (6.55_02)
Configuring XML-LibXML-2.0014
Running Makefile.PL
enable native perl UTF8
running xml2-config...ok (2.9.0)
Checking for ability to link against xml2...no
Checking for ability to link against libxml2...libxml2, zlib, and/or the Math library (-lm) have not been found.
Try setting LIBS and INC values on the command line
Or get libxml2 from
http://xmlsoft.org/
If you install via RPMs, make sure you also install the -devel
RPMs, as this is where the headers (.h files) are.
Also, you may try to run perl Makefile.PL with the DEBUG=1 parameter
to see the exact reason why the detection of libxml2 installation
failed or why Makefile.PL was not able to compile a test program.
-> N/A
-> FAIL Configure failed for XML-LibXML-2.0014. See /home/kahmed/.cpanm/build.log for details.
i tried installing libxml2 manually, but still getting the same issue.
also, i checked for libxml2-dev:
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libxml2-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 78 not upgraded.
here is the system info:
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
uname -a
Linux autobot 2.6.38-8-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:49:04 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I think the relevant line is:
Checking for ability to link against libxml2...libxml2, zlib, and/or the Math library (-lm) have not been found.
So, you've covered off libxml. Have you installed the appropriate zlib package? Try:
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
Then try installing XML::LibXML again.
Why do you want to use CPAN for this anyway? It is typically very bad idea to install CPAN packages if you have native packages provided by standard operating system installer.
Ubuntu provides a lot of Perl packages natively, with following naming convention: package name always starts with lib, then Perl package name like XML::LibXML is converted to lower case and :: replaced to dash - (XML::LibXML => xml-libxml), and finally -perl suffix is added. In other words, native package name for XML::LibXML would be libxml-libxml-perl.
So, in your case, you simply run this command and it will pull all necessary dependencies automatically:
sudo apt-get install libxml-libxml-perl
If you don't like this package for any reason you can uninstall it with sudo apt-get remove. If you use CPAN, it is very difficult to uninstall it reliably.
Overlooked the obvious:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall zlibc zlib1g zlib1g-dev
then:
sudo cpanm XML::LibXML
works!
Maybe this is new version. I did:
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
After this module builded and installed successfully

Perl DBD::Oracle Module installation

Could someone guide me how to install the Perl DBD::Oracle module?
Here is what I have done so far:
Platform: RHEL 5.8 64 bit
Installed Perl DBI package
Installed Oracle Instant client for Linux 64 bit (basi + sdk + sqlplus component for the instant client
Have set the correct $ORACLE_HOME and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Then when I do perl Makefile.pl it fails with the following error:
I'm having trouble finding your Oracle version number... trying harder
WARNING: I could not determine Oracle client version so I'll just
default to version 8.0.0.0. Some features of DBD::Oracle may not work.
Oracle version based logic in Makefile.PL may produce erroneous results.
You can use "perl Makefile.PL -V X.Y.Z" to specify a your client version.
Oracle version 8.0.0.0 (8.0)
DBD::Oracle no longer supports Oracle client versions before 9.2
Try a version before 1.25 for 9 and 1.18 for 8! at Makefile.PL line 271.
The instant client version: 11.1.0
The DBD::Oracle version is 1.44
If you have installed successfully with the Oracle instant client, then could you please let me know what am I missing?
Is it possible to install DBD::Oracle without using the Oracle instant client?
Install if missing ExtUtils-MakeMaker module (sudo yum install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker)
Install Perl DBI module ($ yum install perl-DBI)
Manually install below three RPMs for Oracle instant client (from Instant Client Downloads for Linux x86-64. The example is for v11.2.0.3.0-1: adapt the commands below to the actual version.)
oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.3.0-1
oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.3.0-1
oracle-instantclient11.2-sqlplus-11.2.0.3.0-1
I am using 64 bit Linux box, so select your RPM filenames accordingly. Something like sudo yum -y install oracle-instantclient*rpm should do)
set below variables:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib
export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64
MacOS users will need:
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/
Also add ORACLE_HOME to your PATH variable.
download DBD::Oracle from CPAN
untar the module and run below commands in given sequence:
perl Makefile.PL
make
sudo make install
In case you get complaints about missing gcc you can (temporarily) install it and then remove it.
DONE !!!
Issues I had faced were due to the wrong LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I had set it to /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64 whereas the correct value is /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib.
Certainly, this was a great learning for a newbie like me.
you can also read my article How to install DBD::Oracle which contains all the steps required to install DBD::Oracle CPAN module, which is not a straightforward installation. The purpose is to reduce headache and turn it into a repeatable process.
Here's what I did on CentOS 7.2 using yum packages and CPAN. This assumes you're using Oracle version 12.1 but I would imagine most versions will work this way.
Install Oracle Instant Client
yum install oracle-instantclient12.1-basic-12.1.0.2.0-1 oracle-instantclient12.1-devel-12.1.0.2.0-1 oracle-instantclient12.1-sqlplus-12.1.0.2.0-1
Copy demo make files
The install expects the *.mk file to be in /usr/share/oracle/12.1/client64 but the yum package install puts them in /usr/share/oracle/12.1/client64/demo.
sudo cp /usr/share/oracle/12.1/client64/demo/* /usr/share/oracle/12.1/client64
Modify .bashrc
Add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc
export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME:$PATH
Now source the file
source ~/.bashrc
Update CPAN and DBI
Update CPAN and DBI to the latest
cpan> install CPAN
cpan> reload cpan
cpan> install DBI
Install DBD::Oracle
cpan> install DBD::Oracle
A little addition to slayedbylucifer answer. I had the same problem like mentioned in the question. I've done all the steps described by slayedbylucifer. But still I got the problem like mentioned here:
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /opt/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/client_1/lib//libclntsh.so when searching for -lclntsh
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lclntsh
So I created the following symbolic link:
ln -s /opt/oracle/app/oracle/product/<YOUR_ORACLE_VERSION>/client_1/lib/libclntsh.so $ORACLE_HOME/libclntsh.so*
After that step the error from above (cannot find -lclntsh) was fixed. The execution of the make command was without any errors.
The only problem I still have is that I don't understand why this symbolic link is necessary.