[Dxspider-support] ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provides db_file

[N4DW - Dave]

OK Folks,

N1HEJ is up and running.

Multiple attempts at getting perl setup all resulting in the error in
the subject line of this message re: installing DB_File....

Then I took the message from Dirk with the URL for DB_File-1.816 to
heart, even reading the included README.

Here's how on my WIN XP machine:

> Uninstalled previous attempted perl
> Rebooted
> Downloaded ActivePerl 5.8.9 Build 827 MSI from ActivePerl site
> At end of the download, instructed it to RUN
> After setup was complete, REBOOTED
> Did c:\perl>ppm install net-telnet  -- result was not what I expected,
but I went on
> Did c:\perl>ppm install timedate  -- result was more like what I
expected
> Downloaded DB_File-1.816.zip from Dirk's site 
( http://www.dxcluster.org/download/DB_File-1.816.zip ) to
c:\~\~\DB_File
> Then unzipped it to c:\~\~\DB_File\DB_File-1.816\
> Read the included README (this is important)
> Did c:\~\~\DB_File\DB_File-1.816\>ppm install DB_File.ppd  -- result
was as expected or at least no error message
(please note that the directories \~\~\ are real directories with real
names, but the names have no meaning for this discussion)
(the important thing is to do the ppm install from inside the directory
where DB_File.ppd resides)(I had not done this before, won't tell you
what I did do, may keep you from doing the same thing)
> I already had a DXSpider directory set up from previous attempts and
this one ran nicely once I got the \local & \local_cmd set up and ran
create_sysop/pl
> Presently running Version 1.55 Build 0.66, has been up all night & two
users now connected

Thank you Dirk (and all others) for your help.  I was scratching what
little I have left running into windows 404 trying to find non-existant
urls for older versions of all kind of things.  It was a good game of
Catch 22.

I will be printing a copy of this note off and placing it in my diary.
If I can only remember that I did so.

Thanks again.

73,
Dave
N4DW
Sysop @ N1HEJ


-----Original Message-----
From: dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org
[mailto:dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org] On Behalf Of Dirk
Koopman G1TLH
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:52 AM
To: The DXSpider Support list
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] ppm install failed: Can't find any
package that provides db_file

Dirk Koopman G1TLH wrote:
> Looking at the PPM build logs, it appears as though they are not 
> installing the necessary Berkeley DB files. Now this may actually be a

> problem with more modern DB_File modules. I will go on a hunt for a 
> working one.
> 
> I shall also see if I can sort out an alternative that I can live
with.
> 
> Dirk
> 

In the meantime, I have zipped up all the relevant files that I can find

in my Windows 5.8.7 version of activestate and you can get it here:

http://www.dxcluster.org/download/DB_File.zip

Make sure you unpack it from C:\ as it has all the files in the "right" 
places.

I have no idea whether it will work. It is for IA32 only and should be 
compatible with any 5.8.x perl.

Please try it and tell me how you got on.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND 5.6.x perls on any architecture.

Dirk

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