installing_from_cpan_problems

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Subject: installing perl modules
From: Eileen Orbell <eileen@orbell.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:39:22 -0400

I seem to have great errors installing Perl modules.

For example if I type:
perl -MCPAN -e'install DBD::mysql'
It returns

There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.57) available!
   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...


Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get
     ftp://ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz

gzip: y/sources/modules/03modlist.data: not in gzip format
Going to read y/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Running make for J/JW/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz

Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get
     ftp://ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JW/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz
CPAN: MD5 loaded ok

Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get
     ftp://ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JW/JWIED/CHECKSUMS
y/sources/authors/id/J/JW/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz: No such 
file or directory
Checksum mismatch for distribution file. Please investigate.

Distribution id = J/JW/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz
     CALLED_FOR   DBD::mysql
     CPAN_USERID  JWIED (Jochen Wiedmann <joe@ispsoft.de>)
     MD5_STATUS
     localfile 
y/sources/authors/id/J/JW/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz

I'd recommend removing
y/sources/authors/id/J/JW/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz. It seems
to
be a bogus file. Maybe you have configured your `urllist' with a
bad URL. Please check this array with `o conf urllist', and
retry.

sh: y/sources/authors/id/J/JW/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz: No 
such file or directory
Could not open >y/build/JWIED000/Makefile.PL at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/CPAN.pm line 4006

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