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Tsevg9
Asked: 2012-07-07 06:34:04 +0800 CST

Mod_Perl Install Error

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I am installing software and one of the dependencies is mod_perl, when i run 

  #perl Makefile.PL

I receive this error:

************* WARNING *************

Your Perl is configured to link against libgdbm,

but libgdbm.so was not found.

You could just symlink it to /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0

EDIT: I am using RHEL 5

HELP me???

redhat rhel5 mod-perl

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I ran into this issue awhile back, check to see if libgdbm is installed, if it is do the following to ensure its linked correctly:

    Just noticed you said you were using RHEL5 same system I was using so these should work perfectly for you

    ls -l /usr/lib/libgdbm.so*

    It may look similar to this:

    /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2 -> libgdbm.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0

    If so you can run this command to symlink 

    cd /usr/lib
ln -s libgdbm.so.2.0.0 libgdbm.so

    Then run the command again:

    ls -l /usr/lib/libgdbm.so*

    should look something like this:

    /usr/lib/libgdbm.so -> libgdbm.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2 -> libgdbm.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0

    Try to install again

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  2. It's more helpful to give an idea of what kind of system you're talking about.

    Just for grins, I'm going to guess Ubuntu Linux.

    You could do exactly what it says: read the manpage for ln(1) for more details on symlinks, but:

     ln -s /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib/lbgdbm.so

    might just fix your problem.

    It might not, because there are so many other things that could affect this and you have not narrowed down the field much for us.

    I would suspect that a better approach would be to use your system's native package manager, if my guess at ubuntu is correct, I think you want:

    apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2

    If the native package manager approach won't work for you, even more reason why you need to give more information and write a better question.

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