>>>>> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:11:02 -0600, "Marc Suttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
> Hello list, > I recently was trying to mess around with CPAN and have seemed > to get myself into a bind. > [...] > As you can see I deleted the Cwd.pm module because I was trying to > remove all the modules I had added to get it back to the original state. > So...a couple of questions: > 1. How do I fix Cwd.pm error? Restore from backup or install from CPAN again. > 2. Why did removing the Cwd.pm module kill cpan? Because it is a core module. > 3. Once Cwd.pm is installed as a module can you remove it? How do I > remove all modules I have installed to get it back to original state? If you install Cwd from CPAN, it overwrites the Cwd from the core, so you ust not remove it. > 4. All I wanted to do was install two modules: Digest::SHA1 and > MIME::Base64 and it kept complaining about bad cheksums. Then I even > tried a cpan> install Bundle::CPAN and it returns: > "Distribution id = G/GB/GBARR/Bundle-libnet-1.00.tar.gz > CPAN_USERID GBARR (Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > CONTAINSMODS > MD5_STATUS > localfile > /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Bundle-libnet-1.00.tar.gz > I'd recommend removing > /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Bundle-libnet-1.00.tar.gz. Its > MD5 > checksum is incorrect. Maybe you have configured your 'urllist' with > a bad URL. Please check this array with 'o conf urllist', and > retry." This may or not be a bug in the vesion of CPAN.pm you're using, but efore we can investigate this, you should bring your system back to a correct state. -- andreas
