Problem with perl in CGI script

johnreeves · 01-20-2018, 08:07 PM

after an upgrade to Slackware64 14.2 my cgi perl scripts no longer run. The Apache error log shows: AH01215: Can't locate CGI.pm in @INC (you may need to install the CGI module)
This (CGI.pm) used to be included, where can I get it?

Thanks,
John Reeves

keefaz · 01-20-2018, 08:59 PM

You can install it with sbo (but see note)
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/perl/perl-CGI/

johnreeves · 01-21-2018, 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by keefaz

You can install it with sbo (but see note)
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/perl/perl-CGI/

I am aware of the security risk, this is a little used application and not even presented as a link. Also I am just too lazy to re-write it.

Thank you
John Reeves

keefaz · 01-21-2018, 10:24 AM

See also the dependencies

If you don't need all features, and prefer none extra dependencies, take a look at perl-cgi-minimal.

Johannes

ttk · 01-22-2018, 12:34 PM

One upside to using cpan(1) or cpanm(1) is that they install dependencies for you.

I prefer to install from CPAN first, and use the Slackware packages only if problems arise in testing. That's a little backwards to normal procedure, but has worked better for me in practice (in part because if a Slackware package is a dependency of a module installed from CPAN, cpan[m] will update the package anyway, so this way helps avoid surprising side-effects).