[rt-users] ExternalAuth installation problems and can Authenticating RT against Active Directory be done with version 3.8?

[Mike Peachey]

Kevin Murphy wrote:
> Hi RT List,
> 
>  I attempted installing with CPAN, but that resulted in:
> 
>  
> 
> Warning: Cannot install RT::Authen::ExternalAuth, don't know what it is.
> 
> Try the command
> 
> i /RT::Authen::ExternalAuth/
> 
> to find objects with matching identifiers.
>

I don't know why this would be. But manual installation is just as good 
so it doesn't matter much.


>  
> 
> So, I followed the manual install instructions, but when I run
> 
>                 Perl Makefile.PL
> 
> The response is
> 
>                 Cannot determine perl version info from 
> lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth.pm
> Cannot determine author info from lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth.pm
> Cannot determine license info from lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth.pm
> Using RT configuration from /opt/rt3/lib/RT.pm:
> ./etc   => /opt/rt3/local/plugins/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth/etc
> ./html  => /opt/rt3/local/plugins/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth/html
> ./lib   => /opt/rt3/local/plugins/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth/lib
> Cannot determine perl version info from lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth.pm
> Writing Makefile for RT::Authen::ExternalAuth

I don't know what's causing the "cannot determine" warnings, I guess I 
just haven't yet accounted for a newer version.

> 
> Can anyone inform me of what I am doing wrong here?

Nothing, you just stopped too early. Once you've done `perl Makefile.PL` 
you need to do `make` and `make install`.
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