Can’t locate File/Remote.pm in @INC (@INC contains:

I’m having trouble with the following.

Can’t locate File/Remote.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /pkg/qct/software/perl/q4_06/.lib/site_perl/5.8.8/CPANPLUS/Shell/Default/Plugins /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .)

If I list the flowing the file is actually there :

 ls /pkg/qct/software/perl/q4_06/.lib/site_perl/5.8.8/CPANPLUS/Shell/Default/Plugins
Diff.pm  HOWTO.pod  Remote.pm  RT.pm  Source.pm

I’m really stuck here, this script was running on Solaris, to cut down on licenses I’ve converted 100+ sites to centos, and this script is required to run on a few, but I can’t quite get over this step with google alone.

Answer

That file is for CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Remote^[1].

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@INC contains

• /pkg/qct/software/perl/q4_06/.lib/site_perl/5.8.8/CPANPLUS/Shell/Default/Plugins
• /usr/local/lib64/perl5
• /usr/local/share/perl5
• /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
• /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
• /usr/lib64/perl5
• /usr/share/perl5
• .

so Perl checks for

• /pkg/qct/software/perl/q4_06/.lib/site_perl/5.8.8/CPANPLUS/Shell/Default/Plugins/File/Remote.pm
• /usr/local/lib64/perl5/File/Remote.pm
• /usr/local/share/perl5/File/Remote.pm
• /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/File/Remote.pm
• /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/File/Remote.pm
• /usr/lib64/perl5/File/Remote.pm
• /usr/share/perl5/File/Remote.pm
• ./File/Remote.pm

The module isn’t installed (or it’s installed in a directory into which Perl hasn’t been told to look). Simply install the module (by using cpan File::Remote).

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1. This brings up a second problem: use CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Remote; won’t work because

   /pkg/qct/software/perl/q4_06/.lib/site_perl/5.8.8
   

   should have been added to @INC instead of

   /pkg/qct/software/perl/q4_06/.lib/site_perl/5.8.8/CPANPLUS/Shell/Default/Plugins