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Reputation: 115

Running Perl 5 on Centos 7 and trying to install abd use gtk / gtk2

Someone may notice this is an almost identical question I posted a few days ago regarding tcl / tk. The original recommendation (that worked for this particular error) does not seem to remedy the same error condition that I am currently seeing when attempting to use gtk / gtk2.

I have attempted to switch from tk to gtk because there were subsequent problems with tk that I simply wasn't been able to resolve.

In case it is important, all I am trying to do is Use a GUI from a Perl script.

The remedy for the tk problem was to install tk-devel using yum.

I'm not finding a gtk-devel package, But I did find this on the net, which I did.

sudo yum install gtk* gtk+*

I have also update my perl installation to the current level via yum.

Anyway, when I invoke my test script which has one line in the form of 

use Gtk;

or gtk, Gtk2, gtk2 I see the error

Can't locate Gtk.pm in @Inc (file list...)

I am not sure why the original tk issue was fixed by the inclusion of tk-devel and why I have been unable to do the same with the gtk package? Or maybe there is an additional issue involved?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1311

Answers (2)

Knud Larsen
Knud Larsen

Reputation: 5899

Right, a lot of the common packages are in the epel.repo : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Download 'epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm' https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm

And install with # cd Downloads/ && yum install epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm

Upvotes: 3

Knud Larsen
Knud Larsen

Reputation: 5899

»» use Gtk; «« : Better → use Gtk2;

Gtk.pm is for the ancient gtk+ -1.2.10 : Year 2002? No CentOS 7 packages, perl-Gtk.

Please do : # yum install perl-Gtk2

Provides /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Gtk2.pm

Generally : Please use the 'yum provides */[file]' command to decide package names :

Like # yum provides */Gtk2.pm

Upvotes: 3

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