On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 08:13 AM, Hans Holtan wrote:
> I keep getting this set of errors when I try do install > directly from CPAN with: > > % sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell > > I have tried installing various modules but this is what I get > every time: > > cpan> install MD5 > Running make for G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz > Fetching with Net::FTP: > > ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar. > gz > > CPAN: MD5 security checks disabled because MD5 not installed. > Please consider installing the MD5 module. > > zsh: no such file or directory: > y/sources/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz > tar: End of archive volume 1 reached > tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format. > y/sources/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz: No such file or > directory > Couldn't uncompress y/sources/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz > What's the "y" directory? Try having a look at your ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm file. What are the values of 'build_dir', 'cpan_home', and 'keep_source_where'? My guess is that they're wrong. Maybe you answered "y" to one of the configuration questions, when it wasn't looking for a y/n answer? -Ken
