Error: Can't locate File/HomeDir.pm in @INC

Question

I use a Mac OS X 10.8, and want to run the latexindent.pl perl script on my latex files. This script is made by https://github.com/cmhughes/latexindent.plx. When I run this script on a latexfile I get this error message:

Can't locate File/HomeDir.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.12 /Network/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.12 /Library/Perl/Updates/5.12.4/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/Updates/5.12.4 /System/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.12 /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12 .) at helloworld.pl line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at helloworld.pl line 10.

It seems that I am missing the File::HomeDir module in perl so I tried to download it using:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::HomeDir',

I get the following error:

Can't locate object method "install" via package "File::HomeDir".

I managed to install the YAML::Tiny package without any problems.

I tried to run:

1 #!/usr/bin/perl
2 
3 use strict;
4 use warnings;
5 use FindBin;
6 use YAML::Tiny;
7 use File::Copy;
8 use File::Basename;
9 use Getopt::Std;
10 use File::HomeDir;
11 
12 print "hello world";
13 exit;

and got the same Error message as above...

Do anyone know what to do?

score 21 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 25 '13 at 14:01

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sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install "File::HomeDir"'
                             ^             ^

answered Oct 25 '13 at 14:01

ikegami

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or just `sudo cpan -i File::HomeDir` – friedo Oct 25 '13 at 15:42
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or just `sudo cpan File::HomeDir` – Slaven Rezic Oct 25 '13 at 21:59
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It gives following error: `HASCOMPILERbM3C/TESTkh3J.c:2:10: fatal error: 'EXTERN.h' file not found` – alper Nov 25 '19 at 16:07
@alper, Ask as a question. – ikegami Nov 25 '19 at 16:09
@ikegami I am sorry I will ask as a question. It's related to Apple's introduced System Integrity Protection. Please see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52997962/2402577 – alper Nov 25 '19 at 16:15

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '22 at 03:21

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I had a similar problem. I just ran these commends, and it worked for me

sudo cpan -i File::HomeDir

then

sudo cpan -i Unicode::GCString

Basically, I will run latexindent file_name.tex, then an error message will appear that says you may need to install the XXXX module then I install the XXXX module using sudo cpan -i XXXX

answered Mar 28 '22 at 03:21

Faisal

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The `-i` is implied when there are no other switches, so you could simply have `cpan Unicode::GCString`. – brian d foy Mar 28 '22 at 11:57

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '23 at 11:39

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I just had this problem with macOS M1. If you don't want to use sudo, which I would strongly recommend not to. You can install the formulae latexindent via brew:

brew install latexindent

This fixed my issue without having to use sudo.

answered Jun 04 '23 at 11:39

David Vale

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Error: Can't locate File/HomeDir.pm in @INC

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