unable to install Plack

jjmoka has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'd like to try Plack. The official site says only to do 'cpanm Task::Plack' as it couldn't end but well. But it's not my case. The is no forum to ask there. I received a new user account on a server, where perl version in 5.8.5. cpan didn't succed to intsall Plack, I thus installed cpanm (cpan App::cpanminus). It also failed. I thought it was better to update the perl distribution, so I added perlbrew and then perl 5.22.0. But with no better results.

It starts as

-> Working on Task::Plack
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/Task-Plack-0.28.
+tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Task-Plack-0.28 ... OK
==> Found dependencies: Plack::Middleware::Deflater, Starman, Twiggy, 
+Plack::Middleware::Header, Plack, Plack::Middleware::Debug, Corona, H
+TTP::Server::Simple::PSGI, Plack::Middleware::Auth::Digest, Plack::Mi
+ddleware::ConsoleLogger, Plack::App::Proxy, Plack::Middleware::Sessio
+n, Starlet, FCGI::Client, Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxy
--> Working on Plack::Middleware::Deflater
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/K/KA/KAZEBURO/Plack-Middleware
+-Deflater-0.12.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Plack-Middleware-Deflater-0.12 ... OK
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the fails on many dependencies and ends as:

==> Found dependencies: Plack::Request, Plack, Plack::Middleware
! Installing the dependencies failed: Module 'Plack' is not installed,
+ Module 'Plack::Middleware' is not installed, Module 'Plack::Request'
+ is not installed
! Bailing out the installation for Plack-Middleware-ReverseProxy-0.15.
! Installing the dependencies failed: Module 'Starman' is not installe
+d, Module 'Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxy' is not installed, Module 
+'Plack::Middleware::Debug' is not installed, Module 'Plack::Middlewar
+e::Header' is not installed, Module 'Plack' is not installed, Module 
+'FCGI::Client' is not installed, Module 'Twiggy' is not installed, Mo
+dule 'Starlet' is not installed, Module 'Corona' is not installed, Mo
+dule 'Plack::Middleware::Session' is not installed, Module 'Plack::Ap
+p::Proxy' is not installed, Module 'Plack::Middleware::ConsoleLogger'
+ is not installed, Module 'Plack::Middleware::Auth::Digest' is not in
+stalled, Module 'Plack::Middleware::Deflater' is not installed, Modul
+e 'HTTP::Server::Simple::PSGI' is not installed
! Bailing out the installation for Task-Plack-0.28.
1 distribution installed
[download]

Any web discussion on Plack supposes it's installed, and anyhow the installation should come with no problems. But in a pretty fresh environment of my new server home, there is non choice to have it installed. Any suggestion on how to have it really running will be appreciated

Thanks

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Re: unable to install Plack by choroba (Cardinal) on Jun 15, 2015 at 15:55 UTC
Learn how to read the logs. You skipped all the important parts: the first real failure can give a clue to us, not the last summary. Also, use `<code>...</code>` tags for the logs, maybe combined with a `<readme>` if they're long. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: unable to install Plack by jjmoka (Beadle) on Jun 15, 2015 at 16:24 UTC
Ok thanks to all. Actually I already upgraded to 5.22.0.....and yes, I'll learn better how to read and post logs. Anyhow I fixed the problem. I did like that: `1. perlbrew install-cpanm 2. perlbrew switch perl-5.22.0 3. cpan 4. cpan> upgrade 5. 1 hour to say [yes] to any question 6. ~/perl5/perlbrew/bin/cpanm Plack 7. ~/perl5/perlbrew/bin/cpanm Task::Plack` [download] With not much experience I hope I just found the long way, as it is should be the standrad one, it's a mess!	[reply] [d/l]
Re: unable to install Plack by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Jun 15, 2015 at 15:33 UTC
I suspect that a later version of perl is needed - 5.8.5 was released in 2004, 5 years before Plack stakes its' earliest copyright claim. A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]


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