Hans Holtan wrote: > I keep getting this set of errors when I try do install directly from > CPAN with: > > % sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell > > I have tried installing various modules but this is what I get every > time: > > cpan> install MD5 > Running make for G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz > Fetching with Net::FTP: > > ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz > > > CPAN: MD5 security checks disabled because MD5 not installed. > Please consider installing the MD5 module. > > zsh: no such file or directory: > y/sources/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz > tar: End of archive volume 1 reached > tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format. > y/sources/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz: No such file or directory > Couldn't uncompress y/sources/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz > > > cpan> > > > Can someone tell me in "newbie" what is going wrong here? > > Thanks for your help, > -Hans
Hans, I had many such and other wierd errors... my specific problem was that the gzipped tars being downloaded were screwed up. The checksum was all wonky. Try changing your CPAN repository. Use the o conf command to do that. Hth, pk/
