Trying to install Vmware Vsphere CLI for Linux to allow some automation scripts to work and I am hitting below failure
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CPAN is downloading and installing pre-requisite Perl module "UUID" .
CPAN not able to install following Perl modules on the system. These must be
installed manually for use by vSphere CLI:
UUID 0.03 or newer ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
So I try to manually install the UUID CPAN modules but I am hitting the same failure too.
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Writing Makefile for UUID
Could not read metadata file. Falling back to other methods to determine prerequisites
cp UUID.pm blib/lib/UUID.pm
/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/typemap UUID.xs > UUID.xsc && mv UUID.xsc UUID.c
gcc -c -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -DVERSION=\"0.05\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.05\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE" UUID.c
UUID.xs:5:23: error: uuid/uuid.h: No such file or directory
UUID.xs: In function ‘do_generate’:
UUID.xs:13: error: ‘uuid_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
UUID.xs:13: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
UUID.xs:13: error: for each function it appears in.)
UUID.xs:13: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘uuid’
UUID.xs:14: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘uuid_generate’
UUID.xs:14: error: ‘uuid’ undeclared (first use in this function)
UUID.xs: In function ‘do_unparse’:
UUID.xs:20: error: ‘uuid_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
UUID.xs:20: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘uuid’
UUID.xs:23: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘uuid_unparse’
UUID.xs: In function ‘do_parse’:
UUID.xs:29: error: ‘uuid_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
UUID.xs:29: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘uuid’
UUID.xs:33: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘uuid_parse’
UUID.xs:33: error: ‘uuid’ undeclared (first use in this function)
UUID.xs:30: warning: unused variable ‘str’
make: *** [UUID.o] Error 1
LZAP/UUID-0.05.tar.gz
/usr/bin/make -- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Failed during this command:
LZAP/UUID-0.05.tar.gz : make NO
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As I was on a CentOS 6 box, at first glance I was thinking it missed uuid-devel so I go ahead and install the package via yum but the same failure occurred during modules complication.
UUID.xs:5:23: error: uuid/uuid.h: No such file or directory
With deeper search, looks like uuid/uuid.h is on libuuid-devel package instead of uuid-devel (stupid me). So I go ahead to install that and now I could proceed with Vmware Vsphere CLI package install.
