Question

I have two modules which show up in the configure screen as not installed.

Should these be installed with Twiki install? If not, can you provide links to get these?

If they are supposed to be installed with Twiki, then I have other issues.

I had many other warnings, but these were solved with previous help, making sure all the files were able to be read by other.

The two perl modules which have the error are;

Optional Perl Modules

Digest::SHA1 Warning: not installed. May be required for SHA1 password encoding

CGI::Session Warning: not installed. May be required for sessions

Please advise.

Thanks

Environment

-- DaveGritten - 14 Jan 2007

Answer

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These are CPAN modules which you need to install on your server.

Both are not mandatory but especially lack of CGI::Session majorly limits how well TWiki works for the users.

For RedHat which it my home turf - I always recommend installing CPANs from RPM. TWikiOnRedHat describes how to.

For Debian derived distros I would believe there are debs that can be installed. At least that is what I can see from surfing. Then it may be a simple matter of making an apt-get install libcgi-session-perl

See these links for more

• http://packages.debian.org/stable/perl/libcgi-session-perl
• http://packages.debian.org/unstable/perl/libcgi-session-perl

Finally there is the CPAN way to install CPAN libs.

From a command line simply run

perl -MCPAN -e 'install CGI::Session'

The TWikiOnRedHat describes this pretty well and is also valid for non-redhat.

-- KennethLavrsen - 14 Jan 2007

See also HowToInstallCpanModules.

-- PeterThoeny - 14 Jan 2007