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Subject: Re: Missing perl module is messing everything up
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On Thu, 10 May 2007, Craig Russell wrote:

> Try running "perl -MCPAN -e shell" as root.
>
> That should take you to a cpan> prompt from there type
> "install XML::Parser"
>
> If that completes succesfully hit exit and try to
> install what you were looking for.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Craig Russell
> --- David LeCount <snailboy1@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Ahoy. Every time I try to upgrade a program that
>> depends on Perl, I get this error:
>>
>> checking for XML::Parser... configure: error:
>> XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
>>
>> I've tried a portupgrade -fRra to no avail. I'm not
>> sure if I'm missing a package (pkgdb -F doesn't show
>> anything) or something is configured incorrectly.
>> I've
>> done a search and came up with nothing. I could use
>> a
>> little help.

Sounds similar to an error which occurred with Gentoo Linux over the past couple years. Did you just upgrade Perl and do you use GNU products frequently?
-Garrett