9716. Unable to Run Perl ScriptPerl
Unable to run perl script if module is not found.
1. Error
When trying to execute a perl script, I got the following error. The error shows that perl cannot find the required module.
$ perl encryptionoptin.pl
Can't locate InstalledProduct.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
2. Cause
The error is either because the module is not installed or its path is not in the @INC list.
3. Solution
3.1 Checking Directories
Use perl -V
to check the @INC list. Note, V is upper case.
perl -V
...
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_ITHREADS
USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API
USE_SITECUSTOMIZE
Locally applied patches:
ActivePerl Build 1008 [294165]
0abd0d78 disable non-unicode case insensitive trie matching
d956618 Make Term::ReadLine::findConsole fall back to STDIN if /dev/tty cant be opened
Built under darwin
Compiled at Dec 9 2010 06:07:59
@INC:
/Users/Johnny/Library/ActivePerl-5.10/lib
/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10/site/lib
/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10/lib
3.2 Import Module
One approach to solve this error is to use -I
option to manually import the module.
$ perl -I /Users/Johnny/project/InstalledProduct.pm encryptionoptin.pl