That's what I did, but it didn't fix anything. I thought by removing the cpan directory it would then asks me the startup questions but it didn't.
I'm still confused... Steve Hemond Programmeur Analyste / Analyst Programmer Smurfit-Stone, Ressources Forestières La Tuque, P.Q. Tel.: (819) 676-8100 X2833 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Remko Lodder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 3:15 PM > To: Hemond, Steve; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Perl-beginners] How to reinstall CPAN? > > > your config resides in ~/.cpan > perhaps you can delete that directory, and reconfigure it? > > cheers > > -- > > Kind regards, > > Remko Lodder > Elvandar.org/DSINet.org > www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers > on the hackerscene > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hemond, Steve > Verzonden: woensdag 4 februari 2004 20:37 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: [Perl-beginners] How to reinstall CPAN? > > > Hi folks, > > For some reason, when running CPAN I get to many problems (I > installed Perl v. 5.8.3 this morning, don't know if it has an effect) > > > cpan> install HTML::Mason > CPAN: Storable loaded ok > LWP not available > CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok > Fetching with Net::FTP: > ftp://cpan.chebucto.ns.ca/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > Going to read /usr/local/cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > Can't exec "./gzip": No such file or directory at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.3/aix/IO/File.pm line 176, <FIN> > line 1. Could not pipe[./gzip --decompress --stdout > /usr/local/cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz |]: No such > file or directory at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.3/CPAN.pm line > 5727, <FIN> line 1. > > Is there any way I can reinstall CPAN from scratch? > > Thanks! > > Steve Hemond > Programmeur Analyste / Analyst Programmer > Smurfit-Stone, Ressources Forestieres > La Tuque, P.Q. > Tel.: (819) 676-8100 X2833 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> _______________________________________________ Perl-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.elvandar.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-beginners -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
