On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:39 AM, tom smith <climbingpartn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> tom smith wrote: >> > I actually read something that said not to install Bundle::CPAN. Then >> > sometime later I tried to install my first module, and in the fog of >> > trying everything possible to get cpan to install LPW::Simple, I saw >> > that message instructing me to update Bundle::CPAN, and I tried that. >> > But I never had cpan working before that. cpan didn't work before >> > installing Bundle::CPAN and it doesn't work now. That is why I want to >> > wipe every trace of cpan off my computer. >> > >> > >> >> Removing every trace of cpan from your machine may take a lot of effort. >> Have you tried just replacing CPAN.pm from >> http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ANDK/CPAN-1.9402/lib/CPAN.pm > > > > I ran a find on the root directory to discover all the places where CPAN.pm > is located: > > $ find / -type f -name CPAN.pm > > /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/CPAN.pm > /Users/me/.cpan/Bundle/CPAN.pm > /Users/me/my_tar_extractions/perl-5.10.1/lib/CPAN.pm > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/CPAN.pm > > Here is some more information: > > $ which perl > /usr/local/bin/perl > > $ perl -v > This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for darwin-2level > Copyright 1987-2009, Larry Wall > <snip> > > $ which cpan > /usr/local/bin/cpan > > $ cpan -v > /usr/local/bin/cpan script version 1.9, CPAN.pm version 1.9402 > > Then I ran a diff on the CPAN.pm from your link and the one at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/CPAN.pm, > > $ diff --normal /Users/me/Documents/cpan_pm_co.txt > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/CPAN.pm > $ > > So they are identical. > > The next thing I would like to try is to get rid of Bundle::CPAN, which I > think is this: > > /Users/me/.cpan/Bundle/CPAN.pm > > Can I safely remove the whole .cpan directory? Here's what's in it: > > $ cd /Users/me/.cpan > $ ls > Bundle Metadata build histfile sources > $ > > I decide to try moving the whole /Users/me/.cpan directory somewhere else, and then try installing a module. This is what I got: Password: Terminal does not support AddHistory. cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9402) Enter 'h' for help. cpan[1]> install FileUtils::More CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.20) CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9719) LWP not available Trying with "/usr/local/bin/curl -L -f -s -S --netrc-optional" to get " http://mirrors.cpan.org/showmirror.cgi?name=xmission.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz " CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.02) Error while trying to rename '/Users/me/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp720' to '/Users/me/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz': No such file or directory LWP not available Trying with "/usr/local/bin/curl -L -f -s -S --netrc-optional" to get " http://mirrors.cpan.org/showmirror.cgi?name=xmission.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz " Error while trying to rename '/Users/me/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp720' to '/Users/me/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz': No such file or directoryTerminal does not support GetHistory. Lockfile removed. $ Then I tried to move the .cpan directory back to /Users/me, but I was informed that directory already exists! What the? ~/.cpan$ ls -al total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root me 102 Nov 8 01:48 . drwxr-xr-x 42 me me 1428 Nov 8 16:43 .. drwxr-xr-x 4 root me 136 Nov 8 01:11 sources I notice that it only has one subdirectory now: sources, instead of all the ones it had before: ------ $ cd /Users/me/.cpan $ ls Bundle Metadata build histfile sources $ -----
