Can't install perl quote modules

[John Ralls]

On Aug 8, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Donald Allen wrote:

> On my usual Slackware (13.37, 64-bit) system, I have 2.4.7 installed, which
> I did by downloading the slackbuild from slackbuilds.org, changing the
> version in the gnucash.Slackbuild script to 2.4.7, and downloading the
> source tarball from gnucash.org. It built normally, producing a slackware
> package, which I then installed. It works fine, except I cannot get the perl
> online quote-fetching modules to install properly. Here's what I'm seeing:
> 
>  CPAN.pm: Going to build E/EC/ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz
> 
> Warning: Prerequisite 'HTML::TreeBuilder => 0' for
> 'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
> 'JFEARN/HTML-Tree-4.2.tar.gz' with 'make_test => NO'. Continuing, but
> chances to succeed are limited.
> Warning: Prerequisite 'Crypt::SSLeay => 0' for
> 'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
> 'NANIS/Crypt-SSLeay-0.58.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but chances
> to succeed are limited.
> Warning: Prerequisite 'HTTP::Request::Common => 0' for
> 'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
> 'GAAS/HTTP-Message-6.02.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but chances
> to succeed are limited.
> Warning: Prerequisite 'LWP::UserAgent => 0' for
> 'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
> 'GAAS/libwww-perl-6.02.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but chances to
> succeed are limited.
> Warning: Prerequisite 'HTML::TableExtract => 0' for
> 'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
> 'MSISK/HTML-TableExtract-2.10.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but
> chances to succeed are limited.
> Can't exec "./make": No such file or directory at
> /usr/lib64/perl5/5.12.3/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 2026.
>  ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz
>  ./make -- NOT OK
> Running make test
>  Can't test without successful make
> Running make install
>  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
> root at sergei:/usr/bin$
> 
> This was the end of an attempt to run qnc-fq-update. There were a fair
> number of complaints prior to this about make failures. I assure you that
> make is installed and works fine (I don't know perl -- perhaps that's not
> the system make it's complaining about, but maybe some perl thing also named
> make? I'm guessing here, obviously.). Any ideas?

Try
$ cpan -i Finance::Quote

You might have to do it under sudo.
If that doesn't work, something's borked with your system and you'll have to ask Slackware for help.

Regards,
John Ralls