Thanks for the tip… I had done that before, but it kept installing a newer version of CGI.pm that was incompatible. I decided to clear everything out (including the ~/.cpan directory) and follow your instructions from scratch.

I think I’ve managed to track down the issue: the server was killing some of the install script as being too processor intensive. I used “nice -n 12” to make the install use less CPU, and it looks like it all worked a charm!

I’m going to update the Wiki to suggest using “nice”.

Thanks again for your help and for putting this up.

Cheers,

Chris

For CGI.pm I guess you could simply use the install-module.pl script. Running this in the bugzilla install directory should be enough:

$ perl install-module.pl CGI

Thanks for the write-up.

I’m trying to install a specific version of CGI.pm (3.33 – as the one I’ve installed 3.47 is blacklisted against Bugzilla 3.4.2) following your instructions but at the “make install” section I’m getting:


...
All tests successful, 1 subtest skipped.
Files=20, Tests=519, 6 wallclock secs ( 0.78 cusr + 0.16 csys = 0.94 CPU)

[hoffa]$ make install
Warning: You do not have permissions to install into /usr/lib/perl/5.8 at /usr/share/perl/5.8/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 114.
Cannot forceunlink /usr/share/perl/5.8/CGI.pm: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.8/File/Find.pm line 924
make: *** [pure_perl_install] Error 13

[hoffa]$ echo $PERL5LIB
/home/[myuser]/[mydomain]/bugzilla-3.4.2/lib

Any ideas? As you can see, I have set the PERL5LIB variable, but it still seems to be trying to install in the wrong place…

TIA,

Chris