Perl CPAN trouble installing modules

[Jimls]

I am trying to install several modules with CPAN on a F12 system (Actually Mythdora - F12 + MythTV). Goal is to run misterhouse - a home automation program in perl. CPAN installed some of the modules so I am a little puzzled why not the others. I was missing several dependencies such as gcc but think I got past that. Now some installs are failing make for "unknown" reason.

cpan[1]> install DB_File
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.21)
Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
Database was generated on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:38:56 GMT
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.72)
Going to read 42 yaml files from /root/.cpan/build/
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9719)
DONE
Restored the state of none (in 3.8201 secs)
Running install for module 'DB_File'
Running make for P/PM/PMQS/DB_File-1.821.tar.gz
Has already been unwrapped into directory /root/.cpan/build/DB_File-1.821-ka5ohG
Could not make: Unknown error
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible


I did a little digging and found a suggestion to go to the directory CPAN uses for the files and manually run through make, make install and log the output for review. I ran
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Everything seemed to work and CPAN "install DB_File" now reports "DB_File up to date".
I tried the same thing on another module that was failing for unknown make error and it seemed to work too.

I could manually do them all but would like to fix this right. I did notice that when I ran perl Makefile.PL the make file was not exactly the same as previously as I saved a copy. I can do a bit more digging on that.

Am I missing some dependency checks by manually doing each step?

Another thing: If I wanted to install with yum how do I find the equivalent package? The names aren't always the same. Is this preferred? I have resorted to this for some things.

[Seve]

You should always use yum to install the packages as that will take care of any dependencies and Fedora is a rpm based system.
That is, as long as your version of Fedora is still supported, which F12 is no longer, so I don't know if any repositories are still active or not?
Hopefully there are some. You can find out by using yum.

To find the equivalent software, actually the same although it may be labelled slightly different.

yum install yumex

then use that [yumex] to search for partial descriptions etc.

From a quick scan of misterhouse, applications such as flite, festival and the perl modules are all available from the Fedora respositories using either yum or yumex to install them.

open a terminal and log in as root and copy and paste the following to see what happens. If all goes well try your MisterHouse installation again.

PHP Code:

yum install perl tk-devel db4-devel png-devel zlib-devel perl-Tk perl-GD perl-CPAN flite festival