topic Re: Unable to install XML module in Operating System - Linux

Unable to install XML module

ALOK NATH — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 06:04:39 GMT

Hi all,
I am getting this problem while trying to use XML module in my script.

Script :
#!/usr/bin/perl
use XML::Simple ;
exit 0 ;

Error :
Can't locate XML/Simple.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/PROGRA~1/MKSTOO~1/etc/perl
/lib C:/PROGRA~1/MKSTOO~1/etc/perl/lib C:/PROGRA~1/MKSTOO~1/etc/perl/lib/site_pe
rl .) at XMLRead.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at XMLRead.pl line 3.

When I tried to install its giving this error
..
Error: No valid repositories:
Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (connect: Unknown error)
Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (connect: Unknown error)

Pls suggest me how to get rid of this ?

Thanx,
Alok

Re: Unable to install XML module

Daavid Turnbull — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 01:16:39 GMT

What version of Perl are you using.

My understanding is that most of the recent releases install this module by default.

The simplist option my just be to upgrade.

Answers to my questions elsewhere on this forum lead me to believe that many of the XML modules for Perl have significant bug fixes in later versions.

In my case getting an upgrade done was going to take too long so I wrote my own simple parser based on assumptions about the XML I had to look at.

I realise this is not very specific for your problem but I figured it may help a bit.

Re: Unable to install XML module

Juan M Leon — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:21:14 GMT

before you attempted to re-install did you removed perl. if not? I will swremove to get rid of any corrupt file. Then I will re0install perl with the default configuration.