On a fresh server I installed the latest Compress::Zlib using CPAN, 2.015
This test perl script worked fine, printed out Test with no errors:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Compress::Zlib;
print "Test\n";
As soon as I install VMware-VIPerl-1.6.0-104313 the test script breaks.
# perl test.pl
IO::Compress::Gzip version 2.015 required--this is only version 2.005 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 13.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 13.
Compilation failed in require at test.pl line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 2.
Looking in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm I see several lines like this:
use IO::Compress::Base::Common 2.015 ;
use Compress::Raw::Zlib 2.015 ;
use IO::Compress::Gzip 2.015 ;
use IO::Uncompress::Gunzip 2.015 ;
So far the only way I've been able to get Compress::Zlib working again is to change the IO::Uncompress::Gzip line to 2.005 instead of 2.015 in that Zlib.pm file, the version number needs downgraded in a couple places in there actually. No matter what I try I can't seem to get IO::Compress::Gzip 2.015 reinstalled in a way that Perl will recognize. Reinstalling Compress::Zlib completely doesn't work, even though the install goes fine. Going into /usr/lib/perl5 and deleting every "Compress" subfolder then reinstalling Compress::Zlib doesn't work. Seems VMware-VIPerl is putting that outdated version of IO::Compress::Gzip is someplace besides /usr/lib/perl5 and it won't go away.
