Speaking of CPAN, I've never had much luck using 'cpan' to install Perl
modules.
Most of my stuff is on an iMac G3. Now I've got a new iMac G5. I've
installed CPANPLUS on my G5, but that hasn't worked so far. Perhaps this
has something to do with sudo. I do not and will not operate as root.
I tried to install LWP with CPANPLUS. These are the kind of messages I
got back.
[CP_MSG] [Mon Dec 26 14:07:52 2005] Trying to get
'ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS'
[CP_ERROR] [Mon Dec 26 14:07:55 2005] Fetching of
'ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS'
failed: Command failed:
[CP_MSG] [Mon Dec 26 14:07:55 2005] Trying to get
'http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS'
[CP_ERROR] [Mon Dec 26 14:07:56 2005] Fetching of
'http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS' failed:
Command failed:
[CP_MSG] [Mon Dec 26 14:07:56 2005] Trying to get
'ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS'
[CP_ERROR] [Mon Dec 26 14:08:02 2005] Fetching of
'ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS'
failed: Command failed:
[CP_MSG] [Mon Dec 26 14:08:02 2005] Trying to get
'ftp://cpan.valueclick.com/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS'
[CP_ERROR] [Mon Dec 26 14:10:02 2005] Fetching of
'ftp://cpan.valueclick.com/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS'
failed: Command failed:
[CP_ERROR] [Mon Dec 26 14:10:09 2005]
Could not fetch 'CHECKSUMS' file
[CP_ERROR] [Mon Dec 26 14:10:09 2005]
Checksum error for 'libwww-perl-5.805.tar.gz'
-- will not trust package
Since then I've installed LWP by hand, with the usual
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
sudo make install
This hand installation usually works, but it would be very convenient if
I could make CPANPLUS ar CPAN work. Any suggestions?
Regards,
Vic
