CPAN now

[Chuck Jacobson]

Thanks guys, I simply forgot to use sudo to chmod those files.

Ok now I want to install some CPAN modules - not to necessarily to upgrade stuff I already have but to add new features. I wanted to start with upgrading CPAN since I figure if anything should work, that will.

I have already done this as prescribed:
cpan> o conf cpan_home /var/root/.cpan
cpan_home /var/root/.cpan

Then I try to install Bundle::CPAN.

I get:
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
Is already unwrapped into directory no/build/ANDK000
Could not chdir to "no/build/ANDK000": No such file or directory

If its already unwrapped into the dir, how can the dir not exist? even with sudo i can't cd into the /var/root directory to look around.

Now, I re-initialized CPAN and chose yes instead of no..then tried installing something:
cpan> install Net::Ping
Running install for module Net::Ping
Running make for B/BB/BBB/Net-Ping-2.24.tar.gz
LWP not available
Fetching with Net::FTP:
ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/authors/id/B/BB/BBB/Net-Ping-2.24.tar.gz
LWP not available
Fetching with Net::FTP:
ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/authors/id/B/BB/BBB/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for yes/sources/authors/id/B/BB/BBB/Net-Ping-2.24.tar.gz ok
yes/sources/authors/id/B/BB/BBB/Net-Ping-2.24.tar.gz: No such file or directory
yes/sources/authors/id/B/BB/BBB/Net-Ping-2.24.tar.gz: No such file or directory
tar: Failed open to read on yes/sources/authors/id/B/BB/BBB/Net-Ping-2.24.tar.gz <No such file or directory>
Couldn't opendir no/build/BBB000: No such file or directory at (eval 14) line 5419

Of course these dirs don't exist--why would I have all of the possible CPAN subdirectories on my computer? Why can't it just create the dirs and move on?
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Chuck Jacobson, Technical Systems Specialist
North Central Baptist Church, Gainesville, FL
http://www.northcentralbaptist.org/
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