Michael Lake penned to slug-chat:
> This is a perl question.
as he feared it wasnt linux enough but ....
> Reverse slug-chat nazism: This is totally on topic for the main list!
> :-)
so okies .... :-)
Its on a Debian/GNU box.
Hi all
This is a perl question. I have installed CPAN.pm which will pull down
and install packages via a shell like interface - its very similat to
apt-get.
Problem: it aint working.
I neeed a perl guru. I had a brief look at cpan.org and their mailing
list for cpan-interface archive and at the perl FAQ but cant see exactly
the prob i get here.
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mikel$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.59_54)
ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN')
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
Going to read yes/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read yes/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Database was generated on Wed, 20 Aug 2003 05:45:57 GMT
CPAN: HTTP::Date loaded ok
There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.76) available!
[Current version is v1.59_54]
You might want to try
install Bundle::CPAN
reload cpan
without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrade
while we are running...
Going to read yes/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
CPAN: MD5 security checks disabled because MD5 not installed.
Please consider installing the MD5 module.
Scanning cache yes/build for sizes
gzip: yes/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.76.tar.gz: No such file or
directory
gzip: yes/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.76.tar.gz: No such file or
directory
/bin/tar: yes/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.76.tar.gz: Cannot
open: No such file or directory
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Using Tar:/bin/tar xvf yes/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.76.tar.gz:
/bin/tar: yes/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.76.tar.gz: Cannot
open: No such file or directory
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Couldn't untar yes/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.76.tar.gz
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I have the directory "yes/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/" and the file
CPAN-1.76.tar.gz is there. Yet it says 'No such file or directory'. I
have gzip in /bin/gzip and Config.pm says : 'gzip' => q[/bin/gzip], so
that should be found. Same with tar.
It seems like it is not finding either/all of the tarball, gzip or tar
program but am not sure how to fix it. Or if that is the error.
Mike
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