no Build.PL file in zip file

[xiucz]

When I tried to install this module using perl5.26.1,

perl Build.PL

but I found no Build.PL file in downloaded zip files. Can you show me a way to install it ?
Thanks a lot!

[shlomif]

Hi!

It seems to be ok here:

+ wget -c https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612.tar.gz
--2018-05-02 10:45:02--  https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612.tar.gz
Resolving cpan.metacpan.org (cpan.metacpan.org)... 151.101.2.217, 151.101.66.217, 151.101.130.217, ...
Connecting to cpan.metacpan.org (cpan.metacpan.org)|151.101.2.217|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 45929 (45K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612.tar.gz’

     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ....      100%  355K=0.1s

2018-05-02 10:45:02 (355 KB/s) - ‘Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612.tar.gz’ saved [45929/45929]

+ tar -xvf Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612.tar.gz
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/Changes
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/LICENSE
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/MANIFEST
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/Build.PL
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/Makefile.PL
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/UserSurvey.txt
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/META.yml
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/META.json
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/README
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/lib
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/lib/Statistics
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/lib/Statistics/Descriptive.pm
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/lib/Statistics/Descriptive
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/lib/Statistics/Descriptive/Smoother.pm
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/lib/Statistics/Descriptive/Smoother
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/lib/Statistics/Descriptive/Smoother/Weightedexponential.pm
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/lib/Statistics/Descriptive/Smoother/Exponential.pm
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/examples
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/examples/statistical-analysis.pl
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/inc
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/inc/Test
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/inc/Test/Run
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/inc/Test/Run/Builder.pm
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/descr.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/00-load.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/style-trailing-space.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/median_absolute_deviation.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/pod-coverage.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/cpan-changes.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/outliers.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/pod.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/smoother.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/quantile.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/mode.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/smoother_weightedexponential.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/descr_smooth_methods.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/freq_distribution-1-rt-34999.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/smoother_exponential.t
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/lib
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/t/lib/Utils.pm
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/scripts
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/scripts/bump-version-number.pl
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/scripts/tag-release.pl
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/rejects
Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/rejects/descr.t
+ cd Statistics-Descriptive-3.0612/
+ ls
Build.PL
Changes
examples
inc
lib
LICENSE
Makefile.PL
MANIFEST
META.json
META.yml
README
rejects
scripts
t
UserSurvey.txt
+ perl Build.PL
Created MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Creating new 'Build' script for 'Statistics-Descriptive' version '3.0612'
+ ./Build
Building Statistics-Descriptive
+ ./Build test
# Testing Statistics::Descriptive 3.0612, Perl 5.026002, /usr/bin/perl5.26.2
t/00-load.t ....................... ok
t/cpan-changes.t .................. ok
t/descr.t ......................... ok
t/descr_smooth_methods.t .......... ok
t/freq_distribution-1-rt-34999.t .. ok
t/median_absolute_deviation.t ..... ok
t/mode.t .......................... ok
t/outliers.t ...................... ok
t/pod-coverage.t .................. ok
t/pod.t ........................... ok
t/quantile.t ...................... ok
t/smoother.t ...................... ok
t/smoother_exponential.t .......... ok
t/smoother_weightedexponential.t .. ok
t/style-trailing-space.t .......... ok
All tests successful.
Files=15, Tests=130,  2 wallclock secs ( 0.06 usr  0.02 sys +  1.14 cusr  0.13 csys =  1.35 CPU)
Result: PASS

also https://metacpan.org/release/Statistics-Descriptive lists Build.PL. Note that it is a tar.gz file. See http://perl-begin.org/topics/cpan/ .

[xiucz]

Sorry for my late reply, I followed your advice, it is a cool way to install other perl modules. but I cannot handle my linux perl environment such as , "Can't locate GD/Graph/histogram.pm in @inc...".

At last, I solved this problem with anaconda:

conda install perl-statistics-descriptive

And again, thank you for your kind reply！ ^_^

[shlomif]

@xiucz : not sure I follow, but seems like I can close this bug.