Install Datetime Perl Module Ubuntu

Since the recent upgrades to Ubuntu 12.04, my Bugzilla installation has been broken. The error messages pointed to compilation errors, indicating DateTime::TimeZone as the possible culprit. Running checksetup.pl showed some missing modules (DateTime-TimeZone and Math-Random-ISAAC), but.

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There are several ways to install Perl modules from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network on your Unix-based system. There is always more than one way to do things with Perl, and this is no different. Before embarking on any installation, download the module, unzip it and check out the documentation. Most modules are installed using the same method.

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Activate the CPAN Module

The simplest way to install Perl modules to use the CPAN module itself. If you are the system administrator and want to install the module systemwide, you'll need to switch to your root user. To fire up the CPAN module, just get to your command line and run this:

If this is the first time you've run CPAN, it's going to ask you a series of questions—in most cases, the default answer is fine. Once you find yourself staring at the cpan> command prompt, installing a module is as easy as install MODULE::NAME. For example, to install the HTML::Template module you'd type:

CPAN should take it from there, and you'll wind up with the module installed in your Perl library.

Installing from the Command Line

Let's say you're on your system command line and you just want to install a module as quickly as possible; you can run the Perl CPAN module via command line Perl and install it in a single line:

It's always advisable to download a module yourself, especially if you're having problems installing with CPAN. If you're on the command line, you can use something like wget to grab the file. Next, you'll want to unzip it with something like:

This unzips the module into a directory and then you can go in and poke around. Look for the README or INSTALL files. In most cases, installing a module by hand is still pretty easy, though, although not as easy as CPAN. Once you've switched into the base directory for the module, you should be able to install it by typing:

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I'm installing Perl module DateTime using CPAN.

Following is the directory structure created under DateTime at modules directory

I don't find DateTime.pm any where within this directory structure.

Does DateTime.pm comes with any other bundle?

I couldn't find similar question in stackoverflow. Please feel free to point, if the question already exists.

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It should be installed in a path of the form

You seem to be looking for a path of the form

but that would be for a module named DateTime::DateTime.

You can find out where DateTime was installed (assuming it was installed in a location in which Perl searches) using

or

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