hi everyone,

i have searched through these forums, and i have searched across
the net, to no avail. when i try to load a perl script in x-chat, i get
the following perl-related error.. my question is how do i fix this?

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Apr 18 01:32:59 Errors loading file /home/neenee/.xchat2/sysinfo.pl:
Apr 18 01:32:59 Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at (eval 4) line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 4) line 8.

Apr 18 01:32:59 Error compiling script
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i reckon i could fix it by adding the correct paths to @INC, but i
do not know what @INC is (guess is some sort of include file..),
let alone how to modify it.

any help is greatly appreciated.

as root do a:
find / -name strict.pm

Then if it returns a match:
ln -s /PATH/TO/strict.pm /usr/lib/perl5/strict.pm

Replace /PATH/TO with the path it was found in.

thank you. that worked for that file. but it seems there are
many other files which needs symlinking; i did five now, but
it keeps asking for more files.. perhaps perl needs to be
setup or something so that all the files can be found (some-
thing less manual hopefully).

*update* removed x-chat, then installed it from source
instead of slackware package, and it now uses my specific
locations for the perl libraries.

:)

If they are all in the same place you could add that path to the include list.