Can not locate Xmms::Remote

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

Greetings Monks:

I've been using the CPAN of late to find out what useful perl I can come up with ,and while attempting to get some Xchat scripts to function I have needed a number of modules. This situation I am facing now is rather perplexing (perl never lets you off the hook).
The following error is reported upon attempting to implement the Xmms module:

perl -MXmms -e shell
Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/auto/Xmms/Remote/Remote.so' for 
+module Xmms::Remote: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/auto/Xmms/Remote/Remot
+e.so: undefined symbol: xmms_remote_get_playlist_file at /usr/lib/per
+l/5.8/DynaLoader.pm line 225.
 at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/Xmms.pm line 4
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/Xmms.pm lin
+e 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/Xmms.pm
+ line 4.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
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while installing the module Xmms:Remote produces:


cpan> install Xmms::Remote
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Thu, 09 Jun 2005 05:58:24 GMT
Xmms::Remote is up to date.
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What could be going on here?
As per usual this user community is the only thing that makes modules practical for my level of coding. Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: Can not locate Xmms::Remote by tlm (Prior) on Jun 10, 2005 at 16:44 UTC
One possible explanation is that the `perl` that you get when you type "`perl`" on your shell is different from the one that `cpan` is using. Or else there is some misconfiguration in your `CPAN/MyConfig.pm`. How do you invoke the `cpan` shell? the lowliest monk	[reply]
Re: Can not locate Xmms::Remote by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Jun 10, 2005 at 17:30 UTC
At this point fellow monk I would consider deleting the CPAN configuration file you have and re-creating it from scratch. Last I checked 1+1 is not equal to 5 and that's what you're telling me now...	[reply]
Re: Can not locate Xmms::Remote by dReKurCe (Scribe) on Jun 10, 2005 at 16:51 UTC
I invoke the CPAN shell running as root by : `perl -MCPAN -eshell` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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