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augustin
Asked: 2011-08-29 18:21:41 +0800 CST

How to install Perl module Crypt::OpenSSL::AES?

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It's been a couple of days I am pulling my hair trying to get a legacy Perl script working as cgi within an apache2 server. It requires Crypt::OpenSSL::AES. From the Apache error logs:

Can't locate Crypt/OpenSSL/AES.pm in @INC

The easiest would have been if a ubuntu package could install it with me, but I am unable to locate any package with the proper files. The following returns nothing:

apt-file search AES.pm

As a regular user, I have installed cpan and used it to install perl modules, so that Crypt::OpenSSL::AES is installed under my user directory at /home/user/.cpan/build/Crypt-OpenSSL-AES-0.02-H74J64/lib. Unfortunately, whether I manually copy AES.pm to its proper location (/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1/... as per @INC) or I add the PERL5LIB env variable within the apache2 configuration files (SetEnv PERL5LIB /home/user/.cpan/build/Crypt-OpenSSL-AES-0.02-H74J64/lib), the error logs now show that there is a missing shared object:

Can't locate loadable object for module Crypt::OpenSSL::AES in @INC

The error mesage is subtly different from the first one (I didn't notice it at first): now it does find AES.pm, but there is another dependency on an unspecified "loadable object" and I have no clue which one. Openssl is installed on my system.

So:

Generally, what is the proper way (on a Linux-ubuntu system) to install perl modules to work with an apache2 server? (I searched and there are many answers to this question, but it still doesn't work).

Specifically, how can I properly satisfy my cgi perl application's dependency on Crypt::OpenSSL::AES?

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4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I solved my problem:

    1. Installing the package

      Debian and Ubuntu

      aptitude install libssl-dev

      CentOS or Fedora

      yum install -y openssl-devel`

    2. Compiling the module manually

      sudo cpan Crypt/OpenSSL/AES.pm
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  2. Usually there are *-dev packages in the Ubuntu repository, for developers and administrators to build other software. So the packages to merely run the program can get smaller in size.

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  3. You should look at http://debian.pkgs.cpan.org/. It provides a way for you to generate your own .deb files from CPAN packages. You could try to just shotgun their pre-packaged ones, but just be very aware that they could break due to differences between the Debian machines they were built for and whatever version of Ubuntu you are using: "There be Dragon's Here."

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  4. How about creating package with dh-make-perl (https://wiki.debian.org/PerlFAQ)? A bit too late, but it might help to someone.

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