Michael I think these settings worked for me (edited install_perl_libs.pl):
- hardcoded URL: my $epel_url = "http://mirror.utexas.edu/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm"; - changed tar_verbosity: "tar_verbosity" => "0" If you are installing manually, check ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm for 'tar_verbosity' => q[0], Thanks. -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 14:58 , Michael Jinks wrote: > I'm starting over trying to install VCL. I'm on a RHEL-6 machine, using > the only release of VCL I could find (2.2.1), and I'm up to the point > where I'm trying to run: > > /usr/local/vcl/bin/install_perl_libs.pl (http://install_perl_libs.pl) > > That ends with: > > [...] > WARNING: failed to install the following components: > EPEL > Perl module: Object::InsideOut > Perl module: RPC::XML > > The EPEL issue seems to be an old URL. I was able to work around it by > doing "yum install epel-release". After a brief search I couldn't find > a better URL to feed to rpm; I see that download.fedora.redhat.com > (http://download.fedora.redhat.com) is > defunct, but substituting the new host name, "dl.fedoraproject.org > (http://dl.fedoraproject.org)", > yields a 404. > > I see in the docs that the RPC::XML problem is a known issue, but when I > try to install manually by calling cpan directly, I hit the problem > described here: > > http://tinyurl.com/c2gjrrf [mail-archives.apache.org > (http://mail-archives.apache.org)] > > That thread suggests that the bug should be fixed as of February, but > this is a fresh download of the VCL package from a couple of days ago. > Any chance the old bug leaked back in? Or is there a newer release that > I wasn't able to get from the VCL download site? > > Thanks, > -m > > -- > Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu (mailto:mji...@uchicago.edu) > University of Chicago IT Services > >
