Install perl Net::SFTP module in linux

When installing perl Net::SFTP module in CentOS 5 box:

# perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SSH::Perl'
It got stuck at:

t/01-compile.t…..ok
t/02-buffer.t……ok
t/03-packet.t……1/10

then I tried installation with force so that it can skip tests if any of them failed:

# perl -MCPAN -e 'force install Net::SSH::Perl'

The module seems installed ok but while using in a script, error occured:
Can’t locate Net/SSH/Perl/Buffer.pm in @INC …

that means, the module still not installed/configured properly. To get it done, I searched for rpms and found rpmforge repository http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/ have all the sufficient rpms:

# rpm -ivh /usr/src/rpmforge-release-0.3.4-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
# yum install perl-Net-SSH-Perl --enablerepo=rpmforge

and its done.

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2 Responses to “Install perl Net::SFTP module in linux”

Brent Harsh on May 5th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

Was this for SSH or SFTP? You mentioned SFTP in the title but your examples show you trying to install SSH instead. Just curious.

I’m using RPMFORGE quite a bit these days instead of cpan or manually building perl modules and I came across this entry searching for the SFTP RPM.
jagbir on May 5th, 2009 at 11:52 pm

@Brent: SFTP is just a subcomponent of SSH suite, therefore after installation of perl’s SSH module, you can make use of SFTP as well.

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