Hi,
I tried this (unshift) and I still get the problem - see the
cut/paste below. However, commiting changes works well.
ibm600x:~ # perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.61)
ReadLine support enabled
cpan>
cpan>
cpan> o conf urlist
urlist
ftp://cpan.nas.nasa.gov/pub/perl/CPAN
Type 'o conf' to view configuration edit options
cpan> install Net::IMAP
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
Warning: Found only 0 objects in /root/.cpan/Metadata
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://ftp.perl.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[404] message[Can't chdir to authors]
Fetching with Net::FTP:
ftp://ftp.perl.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Couldn't cwd authors at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 2182.
Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get
ftp://ftp.perl.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
--08:12:44-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
=> `-'
Resolving ftp.perl.org... failed: Name or service not known.
System call "/usr/bin/wget -O - "ftp://ftp.perl.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz";
> /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt"
returned status 1 (wstat 256)
Warning: expected file [/root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz] doesn't
exist
Issuing "/usr/bin/ftp -n"
ftp: Name or service not known
Not connected.
Local directory now /root/.cpan/sources/authors
Not connected.
Not connected.
Not connected.
Not connected.
Bad luck... Still failed!
Can't access URL ftp://ftp.perl.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.
Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file
(ftp://ftp.perl.org/) are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o
conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'
Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://ftp.perl.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: Bad hostname
'ftp.perl.org']
Fetching with Net::FTP:
ftp://ftp.perl.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get
ftp://ftp.perl.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
--08:12:52-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
=> `-'
Resolving ftp.perl.org... failed: Name or service not known.
System call "/usr/bin/wget -O -
"ftp://ftp.perl.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz"; >
/root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt"
returned status 1 (wstat 256)
Warning: expected file
[/root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz] doesn't exist
Issuing "/usr/bin/ftp -n"
ftp: Name or service not known
Not connected.
Local directory now /root/.cpan/sources/modules
Not connected.
Not connected.
Not connected.
Not connected.
Bad luck... Still failed!
Can't access URL ftp://ftp.perl.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz.
Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file
(ftp://ftp.perl.org/) are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o
conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'
Could not fetch modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://ftp.perl.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: Bad hostname
'ftp.perl.org']
Fetching with Net::FTP:
ftp://ftp.perl.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get
ftp://ftp.perl.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz
--08:12:56-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz
=> `-'
Resolving ftp.perl.org... failed: Name or service not known.
System call "/usr/bin/wget -O -
"ftp://ftp.perl.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz"; >
/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data"
returned status 1 (wstat 256)
Warning: expected file [/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz]
doesn't exist
Issuing "/usr/bin/ftp -n"
ftp: Name or service not known
Not connected.
Local directory now /root/.cpan/sources/modules
Not connected.
Not connected.
Not connected.
Not connected.
Bad luck... Still failed!
Can't access URL ftp://ftp.perl.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz.
Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file
(ftp://ftp.perl.org/) are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o
conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'
Could not fetch modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to write /root/.cpan/Metadata
Warning: Cannot install Net::IMAP, don't know what it is.
Try the command
i /Net::IMAP/
to find objects with matching identifiers.
If you have further suggestions I would appreciate it...
Thanks,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Wiggins d'Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:08 AM
To: John Birkhead; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Problems with CPAN
------------------------------------------------
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:27:46 -0700, John Birkhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm a perl newbie and I'm having problems getting CPAN connecting
> and downloading on SuSE 8.2. I start with 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' but the
> urlist is undefined. The default of 'ftp.perl.org' doesn't work.
>
> If I 'o conf urlist push ftp://cpan.nas.nasa.gov/pub/perl/CPAN' (or other
> mirror sites I've tried) when I download this url appears to be ignored
and
> the downloads are attempted from the default.
>
Don't know for sure but you may want to 'unshift' rather than push the URL,
though it should fall through if the first fails.
> It also appears that when I exit and restart CPAN it has forgotten the url
I
> added.
>
You have to 'commit' the changes made with 'o conf' directives for them to
be saved. 'o conf commit' should do the trick.
> Does anyone have any guidance???
>
>
HTH,
http://danconia.org
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