Correct libpam-dev RPM to install for RH5EL

[Jayson Hill]

I'm trying to get Webmin up and running, but it is failing due to a
missing perl package: Authen-PAM-0.16.
When I try to install Authen-PAM-0.16, I get the following error upon
perl Makefile.PL
configure: error: cannot find the pam_appl.h file

When I do a find, I can't see the file on the system. So, it does
appears PAM is not installed on the server. I went looking for the
libpam-dev RPM to install, but I'm not sure which one is the correct
one for my OS version. Would appreciate some help...

Using RedHat EL5. Kernel version: 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5PAE

Thanks in advance.

jh

[Moe Trin]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<cda2516e-4222-4d82...@d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
Jayson Hill wrote:

>I'm trying to get Webmin up and running

Good luck when things break.

>but it is failing due to a missing perl package: Authen-PAM-0.16.
>When I try to install Authen-PAM-0.16, I get the following error upon
>perl Makefile.PL
>configure: error: cannot find the pam_appl.h file
>
>When I do a find, I can't see the file on the system. So, it does
>appears PAM is not installed on the server.

/bin/rpm -qa | /bin/grep pam

pam_appl.h is /usr/include/security/pam_appl.h and is part of the
'pam-devel' package appropriate the to version of pam you have
installed. It should be part of the distribution, but most don't
install the -devel packages.

>I went looking for the libpam-dev RPM to install, but I'm not sure
>which one is the correct one for my OS version.

Should have the same extension as the basic pam package. I don't
have an RHEL5 listing handy, but for Fedora the two were

[compton ~]$ zgrep ' pam-' /net/rpmcache/rpms.fc11-i386.gz | cut -c30-
785481 Apr 17 17:21 pam-1.0.91-6.fc11.i586.rpm
241037 Apr 17 17:21 pam-devel-1.0.91-6.fc11.i586.rpm
[compton ~]$

Your situation would be similar.

Old guy