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I am trying to install Monitorix; but I can't seem to overcome certain issues with the required modules.

I have every prerequisite except for three of the perl modules (MIME-Lite, HTTP-Server-Simple, and Config-General). Even though I have installed them using CPAN, I can't seem to use rpm or yum to finish the installation process (I have the monitorix-3.9.0-1.noarch.rpm file downloaded).

Is there something I'm missing, or some way that is much easier to go about this? I started with a bare-bones Centos 7 system, in accordance to the nature of the course I have to do this for. Anything would be helpful, at this point.

Joshua Burton
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Installing with CPAN is not the equivalent of installing them with yum; the installs are not in the RPM Database. Uninstall them and try again with yum, e.g. yum install perl-MIME-Lite.

Aaron D. Marasco
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  • The reason I tried CPAN was because trying yum gave me this error: "No package perl-MIME-Lite available". Could there be some intermediary step I'm missing, or perhaps there's something wrong with the RPM Database? – Joshua Burton Nov 24 '16 at 05:59
  • Try adding the [EPEL](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) repository to `yum`. Instructions are on that page. – Aaron D. Marasco Nov 25 '16 at 00:38
  • I just discussed this with someone else, and they mentioned trying to do direct downloads from the epel repository...and it worked! Thanks you for the help. – Joshua Burton Nov 26 '16 at 04:06
  • Yes, you can directly download, but that defeats the purpose of a repository, which is the automatic dependency downloading as well. – Aaron D. Marasco Nov 26 '16 at 15:21
  • Oh, ok. I'll have to give that a shot next time (though I think it's good to have experience with direct downloads in case you can't implement the repository approach). – Joshua Burton Dec 04 '16 at 08:24