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6 Perlbal::Manual::Install - Steps, dependencies and requirements to
7 install Perlbal
8 VERSION
10 Perlbal 1.78.
11 DESCRIPTION
13 How to install Perlbal.
14 Installing Perlbal for the impatient
16 $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
17 cpan> install Perlbal
19 App::cpanminus is also good at quickly installing Perlbal and all of
21 its dependencies
22 $ cpanm Perlbal IO::AIO Perlbal::XS::HTTPHeaders
24 ... will give you an ideal Perlbal environment.
26 Installing Perlbal (with a little more detail)
28 You need to have perl on the machine. If you don't have it yet, you can
29 grab it from http://www.perl.org/.
30 Having perl on the machine should give you access to the CPAN shell,
32 one of several possible ways to install and upgrade Perl modules.
33 Start your CPAN shell:
35 $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
37 And now tell it to install Perlbal:
39 cpan> install Perlbal
41 In the end you should see a message stating "make install -- OK" (if
43 that's not the case, please refer to section Troubleshooting later in
44 this document).
45 Installing Perlbal by hand (without using the CPAN shell)
47 Head to <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perlbal/> and find the download
48 link. Download the file and untar it:
49 $ tar zxvf Perlbal-X.XX.tar.gz
51 Note that X.XX stands for the version number. Replace that with the
53 latest version you got.
54 Now you need to create the Makefile and run it; we're also going to run
56 the tests before installing Perlbal:
57 $ cd Perlbal-X.XX.tar.gz
59 $ perl Makefile.PL
61 $ make
63 $ make test
65 $ sudo make install
67 Installing the latest development version
69 You can clone Perlbal's repository from github and install it by hand
70 by following the next steps:
71 $ git clone http://github.com/perlbal/Perlbal.git
73 $ cd Perlbal
75 $ perl Makefile.PL
77 $ make
79 $ make test
81 $ sudo make install
83 Optional Dependencies and Asynchronous IO
85 It is very highly recommended that Perlbal::XS::HTTPHeaders is
86 installed and enabled. If you have poor performance, the first thing to
87 do is install Perlbal::XS::HTTPHeaders.
88 $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
90 cpan> install Perlbal::XS::HTTPHeaders
92 Enable it in your configuration:
94 XS enable headers
96 Perlbal checks for IO::AIO availability and uses it to perform
98 asynchronous IO operations. If you're performing disk operations (e.g.,
99 using Perlbal as a web server), having IO::AIO will improve your
100 response times.
101 The only thing required in order to benefit from this feature is to
103 install IO::AIO:
104 $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
106 cpan> install IO::AIO
108 If you don't have IO::AIO installed a warning message will be displayed
110 when you start perlbal:
111 WARNING: AIO mode disabled or not available.
113 Perlbal will run slowly under load if you're doing any
114 disk operations. (e.g. web_server mode).
115 Install IO::AIO for better performance.
116 Checking that Perlbal is succesfully installed
118 Perlbal is shipped with some sample configuration files that reside in
119 the conf directory (of the source).
120 You can give Perlbal a try by heading to the directory where the source
122 is and using the following command:
123 $ sudo perlbal -c conf/webserver.conf
125 By pointing your browser at "localhost:80" you should now see Perlbal
127 responding (showing you the contents of "/usr/share/doc").
128 Note that the webserver.conf file sets up a Perlbal web server that
130 listens on port 80. If you already have something listening on port 80
131 you need to either stop that service or change the port number on
132 webserver.conf.
133 Also note that if your machine doesn't have a "/usr/share/docs"
135 directory you'll see an "ERROR: Directory not found for service docs"
136 error message. Change the directory in the configuration file to
137 something that exists.
138 Troubleshooting
140 Prerequisites not found
141 If you're installing Perlbal by hand you may encounter some error
143 messages describing how some prerequisites are not available:
144 user@machine:~/Perlbal-X.XX$ perl Makefile.PL
146 Checking if your kit is complete...
147 Looks good
148 Warning: prerequisite BSD::Resource 0 not found.
149 Warning: prerequisite Danga::Socket 1.44 not found.
150 Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Date 0 not found.
151 Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Response 0 not found.
152 Warning: prerequisite Sys::Syscall 0 not found.
153 Writing Makefile for Perlbal
154 This is perl's way of telling you that since you're installing Perlbal
156 by hand you'll also need to install its prerequisites by hand. Your
157 first choice is to download each of them separately and perform the
158 same installation procedure for each. Unfortunately, they are all
159 likely to have additional prerequisites. Recursively.
160 Alternately, see the following Troubleshooting item: "No connection to
162 the internet".
163 No connection to the internet
165 If you don't have a connection to the internet you can still install
167 Perlbal, but you'll have to tranfer the source somehow to the machine.
168 Given that Perlbal has other module dependencies from CPAN (and those
170 have their own dependencies too), here's a solution for this problem:
171 Step 1: On a machine with connection to the internet, install
173 CPAN::Mini:
174 $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
176 cpan> install CPAN::Mini
178 Run "minicpan" to create a minimal CPAN mirror (it contains only the
180 latest version of each module):
181 $ minicpan -l /home/user/minicpan/ -r http://cpan.org/
183 Now grab that directory and record it to something you can read on the
185 other machine (e.g., a DVD, a hard drive).
186 Once you're on that machine, you can run the CPAN shell and tell it to
188 look for distributions on the local directory where you now have your
189 own CPAN mirror:
190 $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
192 cpan> o conf urllist push file:///home/user/path/to/minicpan
194 cpan> install Perlbal
196 If you want "cpan" to record this change don't forget to commit:
198 cpan> o conf commit
200 No compiler available
202 If there's no compiler available on the machine you will probably see
204 an error ending in something like:
205 Failed during this command:
207 DORMANDO/Perlbal-X.XX.tar.gz : writemakefile NO '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site' returned status -1
208 You need to install something like "gcc" (check <http://gcc.gnu.org/>).
210 After installing "gcc", when trying to install Perlbal again you may
212 get another error message:
213 cpan> install Perlbal
215 Running install for module 'Perlbal'
216 Running make for D/DO/DORMANDO/Perlbal-X.XX.tar.gz
217 Has already been unwrapped into directory /home/myself/.cpan/build/Perlbal-X.XX-GFko0J
218 '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site' returned status -1, won't make
219 Running make test
220 Make had some problems, won't test
221 Running make install
222 Make had some problems, won't install
223 This is the cpan shell assuming nothing changed in the system and
225 skipping a few steps. You need to let it know you're willing to forget
226 the past:
227 cpan> look Perlbal
229 $ rm -rf *
231 $ exit
233 And now you can try installation again:
235 cpan> install Perlbal
237 SEE ALSO
239 Perlbal::Manual.
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