[AAPlus]

Hey,To all

Well back for more help with Suse here is the
problem i am having i downloaded & installed
f-prot but each time i try to do an update i get

this Error

Unable to include perl module:
HTTP request please install this
module & try rerunning this Script

so i went & downloaded this file
here HTTP-Request-form-0.952.tar.gz

so i extracted the files but have no idea
how to install anyone at all please

Also is anyone using that kgpg i
can not install it would like to or
can i install PGP on Suse

Thank you

[codejockey]

You did things exactly right by locating and downloading the package, but there's an easier way. For the complete story, give the command: man CPAN at the command line to read the manual page on CPAN. You'll probably want to use the perl CPAN interface as it handles dependencies gracefully and largely automates the locate, download, compile and install process.

The short story: you can use the perl CPAN interface interactively to install perl modules. Start by becoming root and give the command: perl -MCPAN -e shell
at the command line. You will now be in interactive mode. You can get help by giving the command: h when you see the perl CPAN prompt.

You'll probably want to give the command: make HTTP::Request (note: capitalization/case is significant) which should take care of everything. You may be asked if you'd like to install any dependencies (say yes) and I think you will need the lynx browser installed on your system (this is a text-mode browser).

Hope this helps.

[AAPlus]

Hi,codejockey

Like to say thank you for the help i tried what
you said & it seem like it installed but when i
try to run the f-prot update i got the same Error

also why am i having problems installing
software on Suse i'm talking about stuff
that i download i was trying to install PGP for linux

Thank you

[lynch]

Most anything you want is on the SuSE CDs. I would look there before I downloaded somthing from the internet.
lynch

[codejockey]

After you accessed CPAN and gave the command make HTTP::Request, you probably retrieved and built several modules. If everything went OK, you should give the command install HTTP::Request when you are in the interactive mode. You can still do this (since you've already made everything); as root, just go back to the interactive mode (perl -MCPAN -e shell) and try install HTTP::Request and see if that fixes things.

Sorry I didn't point this out earlier. BTW, you can also give the command install module-name to retrieve all modules and dependencies, build them and install them all in one go.

Hope this helps.

[AAPlus]

Hey,codejockey

No sorry to say it did not work for me but it may
be me who is doing something wrong here & there
is no need to be sorry at all thanks for the help i
will keep trying tell i get it going well talk to you soon

Good luck