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Hi Dave,<br>
<br>
I went through the same situation and several hours trying to get
DXSpider working on my Windows XP platform. DB_File is broken for
Windows (something to do with Berkley files).<br>
<br>
Tried the current releases of ActivePerl 5.8.9 & 5.10.1 with the
same DB_File missing failure. Much googling revealed that DB_File is
now core to 5.10.1 so not available as an external module,
unfortunately broken for Windows, for 5.8.9 none of the repositories
have DB_File available since it is also broken for windows.<br>
<br>
The solution (my node is working locally) was to install 5.6.1 build
635 which has working DB_File support working for Windows. The
downside, 5.6.1 is 7 years old and took much googling to locate a
source for the Windows release and then further googling to find a
repository that still has 5.6 modules available (ended up using 3
different repositories to get the modules needed).<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
<br>
de Laurie, VK3AMA<br>
<br>
<br>
N4DW - Dave wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Last night I was
attempting to set up a new <span class="SpellE">DXSpider</span> node
on my main machine after a near catastrophic
failure on my 6+year old <span class="SpellE">DXSpider</span>
dedicated PC.<span style=""> </span>At this time, I’ll not discuss
the
failure, only the new installation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Info:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">XP Professional, SP3<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Celeron <span
class="GramE">2.93ghz</span>, 960mb ram<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">8 gig free space on a 20
gig hard drive<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">isp</span></font></span></span><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> is Charter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Charter’s Security Suite,
by F-Secure<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">No internet access
difficulties<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I am not conversant in <span
class="SpellE">Perl</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Following the
instructions in the <span class="SpellE">DXSpider</span>
<span class="SpellE">wiki</span> site, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.dxcluster.org/index.php/Microsoft_Windows_Installation#Microsoft_Windows_Installation">http://wiki.dxcluster.org/index.php/Microsoft_Windows_Installation#Microsoft_Windows_Installation</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I was unable to locate </span></font><span
style="" lang="EN">ActivePerl <span class="GramE">v5.8.8<font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span
style=""> </span>as</span></font></span></span><font face="Arial"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
recommended,
but I did find both v5.8.9/827 and v5.10.1/1007.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I installed <span
class="SpellE">Perl</span> v5.8.9/827 with
apparently no problem. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Yes, I rebooted.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<div
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">C:\Perl>perl -v<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">This is <span
class="SpellE">perl</span>, v5.8.9 built for
MSWin32-x86-multi-thread<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">(<span class="GramE">with</span>
12 registered patches, see <span class="SpellE">perl</span> -V for
more detail)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Copyright 1987-2008,
Larry Wall<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Binary build 827 [291969]
provided by <span class="SpellE">ActiveState</span>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ActiveState.com">http://www.ActiveState.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Built </span></font><st1:date
month="1" day="26" year="2010"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Jan 26 2010</span></font></st1:date><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font><st1:time
hour="21" minute="15"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">21:15:51</span></font></st1:time><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><span
class="SpellE"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Perl</span></font></span><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> may be
copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><span
class="GramE"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">GNU General Public
License, which
may be found in the <span class="SpellE">Perl</span> 5 source kit.</span></font></span><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Complete documentation
for <span class="SpellE">Perl</span>,
including FAQ lists, should be found on<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><span
class="GramE"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">this</span></font></span><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> system
using "man <span class="SpellE">perl</span>" or "<span class="SpellE">perldoc</span>
<span class="SpellE">perl</span>".<span style=""> </span>If you
have access to the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Internet, point your
browser at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.perl.org/">http://www.perl.org/</a>, the <span class="SpellE">Perl</span>
Home Page.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Adding the extensions
went OK for “net-telnet”
and “<span class="SpellE">timedate</span>”, but when attempting <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Ppm</span></font></span></span><span
class="GramE"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> install</span></font></span><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <span class="SpellE">db_file</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The following occurred:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">C:\Perl>ppm <span
class="GramE">install</span> <span class="SpellE">db_file</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">ppm</span></font></span></span><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> install
failed: Can't find any package that provides <span class="SpellE">db_file</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">After several hours of
sleep I tried again with this result:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">C:\Perl>ppm <span
class="GramE">install</span> <span class="SpellE">db_file</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Downloading <span
class="SpellE">ActiveState</span> Package
Repository <span class="SpellE">packlist</span>...done<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Updating <span
class="SpellE">ActiveState</span> Package
Repository database...done<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">ppm</span></font></span></span><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> install
failed: Can't find any package that provides <span class="SpellE">db_file</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Yes, somewhere in there I
installed <span class="SpellE">DXSpider</span>,
but cannot get it to run:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">C:\Spider\perl>cluster.pl<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Can't locate <span
class="SpellE">DB_File.pm</span> in @INC
(@INC contains: /spider/local /spider/<span class="SpellE">perl</span>
C:/<span class="SpellE">Pe</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">rl</span></font></span></span><span
class="GramE"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">/site/lib</span></font></span><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> C:/<span class="SpellE">Perl</span>/lib
.) <span class="GramE">at</span> /spider/<span class="SpellE">perl/Prefix.pm</span>
line 13.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">BEGIN failed--compilation
aborted at /spider/<span class="SpellE">perl/Prefix.pm</span> line 13.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Compilation failed in
require at /spider/<span class="SpellE">perl/Filter.pm</span>
line 33.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">BEGIN failed--compilation
aborted at /spider/<span class="SpellE">perl/Filter.pm</span> line 33.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Compilation failed in
require at /spider/<span class="SpellE">perl/DXChannel.pm</span>
line 33.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">BEGIN failed--compilation
aborted at /spider/<span class="SpellE">perl/DXChannel.pm</span> line
33.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Compilation failed in
require at C:\Spider\perl\cluster.pl
line 64.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">BEGIN failed--compilation
aborted at
C:\Spider\perl\cluster.pl line 64.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Has anyone else run into
the failure of <span class="SpellE">db_file</span>
to install and if so were you able to resolve the issue?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What was the resolution?<span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Is there a resolution?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I saw where this
identical problem was posted last October 13<sup>th</sup>,
2009, but there didn’t seem to be a resolution at that time.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks & 73,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Dave <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Sysop @ N1HEJ<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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