cannot install cpan modules

2008-09-11 Thread Bianca Shibuya
Hi there,I saw many emails with the same problem, cannot install cpan modules. But no solution worked for me.I use perl 5.8.8 already installed on Mac OS Leopard 10.5. I tried this:sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'Part of the error message is:  CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PM/PMQS

Res: cannot install cpan modules

2008-09-11 Thread Bianca Shibuya
: macosx@perl.org Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 11 de Setembro de 2008 16:53:58 Assunto: cannot install cpan modules Hi there, I saw many emails with the same problem, cannot install cpan modules. But no solution worked for me. I use perl 5.8.8 already installed on Mac OS Leopard 10.5. I tried

Re: CPAN modules on Leopard

2008-02-11 Thread Timothy Bailey
Just to post a resolution... I manually downloaded the Class::MethodMaker module from CPAN, and manually installed it. Oddly enough, then everything worked fine. So, I guess the moral of the story is... if the CPAN interface doesn't install things correctly, try doing it manually; that may

Re: CPAN modules on Leopard

2008-02-06 Thread Timothy Bailey
At 8:34 AM -0800 2/5/08, John Baldwin wrote: That's very strange. I'm running on a Macbook. I just ran the make and test on Class::MethodMaker within cpan and all tests passed (2 subtests skipped). I'd try cleaning out your CPAN directory to see if that helps. I assume that by my CPAN

Re: CPAN modules on Leopard

2008-02-05 Thread Timothy Bailey
At 10:38 PM -0800 2/3/08, John Baldwin wrote: My guess is a dependency wasn't set up right. Try installing the module it's complaining about: http://search.cpan.org/~schwigon/Class-MethodMaker/lib/Class/MethodMaker.pm And see if Term::ProgressBar installs properly then. I've tried

Re: CPAN modules on Leopard

2008-02-05 Thread John Baldwin
That's very strange. I'm running on a Macbook. I just ran the make and test on Class::MethodMaker within cpan and all tests passed (2 subtests skipped). I'd try cleaning out your CPAN directory to see if that helps. John On Monday Feb 4, 2008 7:06 PM, at 7:06 PM, Timothy Bailey wrote:

CPAN modules on Leopard

2008-02-03 Thread Timothy Bailey
I've just bought a new Mac with Leopard preinstalled, and am getting it set up, including my Perl programs. (I've actually skipped Tiger entirely; the old computer is on Panther.) They depend on a number of CPAN modules, and I am having trouble getting the modules installed. I've installed

Re: CPAN modules on Leopard

2008-02-03 Thread John Baldwin
wrote: I've just bought a new Mac with Leopard preinstalled, and am getting it set up, including my Perl programs. (I've actually skipped Tiger entirely; the old computer is on Panther.) They depend on a number of CPAN modules, and I am having trouble getting the modules installed. I've

Re: CPAN modules ...

2006-01-01 Thread Ken Williams
On Dec 31, 2005, at 7:43 PM, John Delacour wrote: At 6:49 pm -0500 31/12/05, Chris Devers wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, John Delacour wrote: print `/usr/bin/./printenv` ^^ Why the '/./' here? Isn't `/usr/bin/printenv` equivalent, clearer, and simpler? Sure, but I

Re: CPAN modules ...

2006-01-01 Thread Vic Norton
This has been an interesting discussion but, unfortunately, my first question about getting CPANPLUS to work is nowhere near resolved. I'll have to do a bit more research in that area. As for the second question about setting up my BBEdit environment, Doug McNutt's solution of putting everything

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-31 Thread John Delacour
At 3:17 am + 31/12/05, John Delacour wrote: At 5:15 pm -0500 30/12/05, Vic Norton wrote: How can I make BBEdit's %ENV more like the system %ENV? Turn BBEdit into Terminal?... Try this: #!/usr/bin/perl print `/usr/bin/./printenv` JD

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Devers
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, John Delacour wrote: Try this: #!/usr/bin/perl print `/usr/bin/./printenv` ^^ ^^ Why the '/./' here? Isn't `/usr/bin/printenv` equivalent, clearer, and simpler? -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-31 Thread John Delacour
At 6:49 pm -0500 31/12/05, Chris Devers wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, John Delacour wrote: print `/usr/bin/./printenv` ^^ Why the '/./' here? Isn't `/usr/bin/printenv` equivalent, clearer, and simpler? Sure, but I didn't get that far. printenv works in tcsh without the

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-30 Thread Joseph Alotta
On Dec 29, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Maybe it would help to tell you it ain't that simple? To mention openssl again, it can be installed in a variety of places, and it depends in part on where other things you may have installed might have wanted to put the packages they depend

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-30 Thread Ken Williams
On Dec 29, 2005, at 7:03 PM, James Reynolds wrote: Grumble. That is exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks! Does CPAN install C libraries to /usr/local/lib or somewhere else? I could search for all new files right after a CPAN install. Anything that gets installed during 'make install'

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-30 Thread Vic Norton
Hi Chris, I have no 'FTP_PASSIVE' key in %ENV. Should I have $ENV{'FTP_PASSIVE'} = 1? Apparently this can be accomplished by inserting the two lines FTP_PASSIVE=1 export FTP_PASSIVE in my '.bash_profile' file. A second question. When I run for (sort keys %ENV) { printf %25s =

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
On 2005.12.31, at 02:01 AM, Joseph Alotta wrote: On Dec 29, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Maybe it would help to tell you it ain't that simple? To mention openssl again, it can be installed in a variety of places, and it depends in part on where other things you may have installed

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-30 Thread Doug McNutt
At 17:15 -0500 12/30/05, Vic Norton wrote: A second question. When I run for (sort keys %ENV) { printf %25s = %s\n, $_, $ENV{$_}; } from BBEdit, I see a small subset of the %ENV that comes from running the script in Terminal. How can I make BBEdit's %ENV more like the system %ENV? I'm

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-30 Thread John Delacour
At 5:15 pm -0500 30/12/05, Vic Norton wrote: A second question. When I run for (sort keys %ENV) { printf %25s = %s\n, $_, $ENV{$_}; } from BBEdit, I see a small subset of the %ENV that comes from running the script in Terminal. How can I make BBEdit's %ENV more like the system %ENV?

CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread James Reynolds
Does anyone know why Apple chooses or not chooses to include modules? I really dislike installing them. And more and more I find I need to. So how would I go about pressuring Apple to include more. -- Thanks, James Reynolds University of Utah Student Computing Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Devers
is impossible anyway. There has been talk of including fewer CPAN modules with future versions of Perl, to get people into the habit of installing things when previously they might not have wanted to go beyond the core modules. *shrug* -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread James Reynolds
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, James Reynolds wrote: Does anyone know why Apple chooses or not chooses to include modules? I really dislike installing them. And more and more I find I need to. So how would I go about pressuring Apple to include more. No vendor includes a full CPAN library with the

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Adrian Hosey
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, James Reynolds wrote: : : Hm. I really do not want to install the Dev Tools on my Mac OS X Server : boxes. I have been getting around this by installing the files on a client : machine and coping them to the servers, but I don't believe this is ideal. : Does anyone know

RE: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Jan Dubois
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, James Reynolds wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, James Reynolds wrote: Does anyone know why Apple chooses or not chooses to include modules? I really dislike installing them. And more and more I find I need to. So how would I go about pressuring Apple to include more. No

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
Get used to CPAN. You aren't going to find a vendor that provides a full CPAN install -- new ones appear daily, so keeping up is impossible anyway. Hm. I really do not want to install the Dev Tools on my Mac OS X Server boxes. Why not? I'm not suggesting you install the dev tools, but if

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Danny Hembree
Many modules link to C libraries that must be installed as well. Simply copying the Perl directory over won't get everything that is needed. On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 13:05, James Reynolds wrote: Does anyone know why Apple chooses or not chooses to include modules? I really dislike installing

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread James Reynolds
Grumble. That is exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks! Does CPAN install C libraries to /usr/local/lib or somewhere else? I could search for all new files right after a CPAN install. James At 4:58 PM -0800 12/29/05, Danny Hembree wrote: Many modules link to C libraries that must be

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Ed Mansky
Grumble. That is exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks! Does CPAN install C libraries to /usr/local/lib or somewhere else? I could search for all new files right after a CPAN install. James Another point to remember is that some CPAN modules that depend upon C libraries already being

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-29 Thread Vic Norton
Speaking of CPAN, I've never had much luck using 'cpan' to install Perl modules. Most of my stuff is on an iMac G3. Now I've got a new iMac G5. I've installed CPANPLUS on my G5, but that hasn't worked so far. Perhaps this has something to do with sudo. I do not and will not operate as root. I

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
[CP_ERROR] [Mon Dec 26 14:07:55 2005] Fetching of 'ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS' failed: Command failed: [...] This hand installation usually works, but it would be very convenient if I could make CPANPLUS ar CPAN work. Any suggestions? Choose a

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Danny Hembree
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 17:03, James Reynolds wrote: Grumble. That is exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks! Does CPAN install C libraries to /usr/local/lib or somewhere else? I could search for all new files right after a CPAN install. James This gets hairy. Due OSX's unique directory

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
On 2005.12.30, at 10:03 AM, James Reynolds wrote: Grumble. That is exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks! Does CPAN install C libraries to /usr/local/lib or somewhere else? Maybe it would help to tell you it ain't that simple? To mention openssl again, it can be installed in a variety of

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Joel Rees wrote: [CP_ERROR] [Mon Dec 26 14:07:55 2005] Fetching of 'ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS' failed: Command failed: [...] This hand installation usually works, but it would be very convenient if I could make

Re: Non-CPAN modules??

2002-09-11 Thread Brian McNett
On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 07:02 AM, Steven Bach wrote: I grabbed the tarball to take a look at it. The INSTALL file say you have to hand modify the Makefile to get it to point to where you want. Since there are only seven files, there is no compile involved, and it is

Non-CPAN modules??

2002-09-10 Thread Brian McNett
Okay, I'm in stupid question mode, so I'll keep this short. I'm working on ways to track spam (where most people just want to filter it), and looking around noticed a nifty bit of Perl code which appears to do most of what I want, and could easily be coerced into doing the rest as well...

Re: Non-CPAN modules??

2002-09-10 Thread ellem
On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 12:26 , Brian McNett wrote: SNIP Alas, I'm so used to just grabbing things from CPAN that I'm not sure where to begin with installing this puppy by hand. I appear to have all the prerequisites as described in the README and INSTALL files, but I know