PERL BEGINNERS 10 SICK OF INSTALLING CPAN MODULES
Subject: Sick of Installing CPAN modules
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:32:39 -0700

From: jc@no-spam (Nntp.Perl.Org)

I have parse a mailbox in order to grab data from each email. Simple enough right?

So I tried to use the CPAN module Mail::MboxParser (0.17 version because the new one requires more modules than this one) I installed the prerequisite MIME::Tools (5 version, not developer) and this went fine. MIME::Tools also requires IO::Stringy, and Mail::Field, Mail::Header, Mail::Internet. No problem, installed all of those.

However, the Mail::MboxParser, the one that I really need still says it need MIME::Tools. The actual module is called MIME::tools. I'm wondering if the program is so stupid that it doesn't realize this ist he same thing. Or perhaps it's not the same thing and there's a secret to installing these modules that I don't know about.

I am using RH Linux 9 straight from the box.