Dan Muey wrote:
> I've also had trouble using CPAN and so I did the reload index
> mentioned in this thread and that seemed to go thought but I s
> til can't get it to go.
>
> It's the same error everytime ( diff module names of course ) :: could not
> open y... There is a direct
> perl -MCAPN =e shell;
> CPAN> install Bundel::CPAN
>
> ...
> cannot open y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz: no such file
> Could not open >y/build/ANDK000/Makefile.PL at
> /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/CPAN.pm line 3642
>
> I'm root when I do this.
> Do I need to be in a special directory when I do it? ( I also tried it in
> root's home directory, same thing )
>
> Permissions ::
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED](~/perl_cpan_mod ):120)# ls -al y/
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Mar 5 11:11 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Mar 5 11:10 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 5 11:11 build
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Mar 5 11:10 sources
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED](~/perl_cpan_mod ):121)#
>
> Or whatelse could I be fumbling up ??
>
> Thanks
>
> Dan
>
> -- DETAILS --
>
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED](/home/dmuey):101)# perl -MCPAN -e shell;
>
> cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.48)
> ReadLine support available (try ``install Bundle::CPAN'')
>
> cpan> relaod index
> Unknown command 'relaod'. Type ? for help.
>
> cpan> reload index
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://mirrors.phenominet.com/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Going to read y/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://mirrors.phenominet.com/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> Going to read y/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> Scanning cache y/build for sizes
>
> There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.70) available!
> You might want to try
> install Bundle::CPAN
> reload cpan
> without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrade
> while we are running...
>
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://mirrors.phenominet.com/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
> Going to read y/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
>
> cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
> Fetching with LWP:
>
ftp://mirrors.phenominet.com/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz
>
> CPAN: MD5 security checks disabled because MD5 not installed.
> Please consider installing the MD5 module.
>
> cannot open y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz: no such file
> Could not open >y/build/ANDK000/Makefile.PL at
> /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/CPAN.pm line 3642
>
> cpan> exit
> Lockfile removed.
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED](/home/dmuey):102)#
>
> --- end details ---
you could try doing
install CPAN
instead of
install Bundle::CPAN
and see if that works. I normally skip the Bundle myself and just install
only the modules that require updating.
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