Terrible PERL problems PERL seems to be having terible problem installing CPAN :- ~~~~ cpan> install Bundle::CPAN CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read #/Metadata Database was generated on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:09:22 GMT CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok Checksum for #/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.85.tar.gz ok Scanning cache #/build for sizes gzip: #/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.85.tar.gz: No such file or directory gzip: #/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.85.tar.gz: No such file or directory /bin/tar: #/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.85.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Using Tar:/bin/tar xvf #/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.85.tar.gz: /bin/tar: #/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.85.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Couldn't untar #/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.85.tar.gz ~~~~ How can I reinstall PERL or get it back to a usable state ? Aaron
Regarding PERL I am not at all familurar with PERL but it seems its CPAN.pm is out of date and its MetaData is out of date or incorrect. I am thinking that this server (our backup and development server) may well need reinstalling from scratch. We are stuck with RedHat 9 rather than Fedora 1 as the video card a Cirrus Logic one is not supported by Fedora's X.org only by RedHat 9's XFree86. I am thinking it would be good to get a How to together for ISPConfig on RedHat 9. We have another main server that I want to put ISPConfig as well. Thanks for all your help so far, Aaron
Why did you try to install Bundle::CPAN? You must install Pod::Simple. Please disable the firewall before you do this, otherwise the Perl shell might have problems downloading the software.
Pod::Simple install problems I tried but it required Pod::Escapes ~~~~ [[email protected] Pod-Simple-2.06]# perl Makefile.PL Warning: prerequisite Pod::Escapes 1.03 not found. Writing Makefile for Pod::Simple [[email protected] Pod-Simple-2.06]# perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.61) ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN') cpan> install Pod::Escapes CPAN: Storable loaded ok CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Going to read #/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Going to read #/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Database was generated on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:09:22 GMT There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.87) available! [Current version is v1.61] 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... Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to read #/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to write #/Metadata Running install for module Pod::Escapes Running make for S/SB/SBURKE/Pod-Escapes-1.04.tar.gz Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.fu...uthors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/Pod-Escapes-1.04.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/CHECKSUMS Checksum for #/sources/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/Pod-Escapes-1.04.tar.gz ok Scanning cache #/build for sizes Can't stat tmp (No such file or directory) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 3828 gzip: #/sources/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/Pod-Escapes-1.04.tar.gz: No such file or directory gzip: #/sources/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/Pod-Escapes-1.04.tar.gz: No such file or directory /bin/tar: #/sources/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/Pod-Escapes-1.04.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Using Tar:/bin/tar xvf #/sources/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/Pod-Escapes-1.04.tar.gz: /bin/tar: #/sources/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/Pod-Escapes-1.04.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Couldn't untar #/sources/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/Pod-Escapes-1.04.tar.gz ~~~~ Maybe its a firewall problem. Aaron
install Pod::Simple I am getting the following with the firewall turned off :- ~~~~ cpan> install Pod::Simple CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read #/Metadata Database was generated on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:09:22 GMT CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Going to read #/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Going to read #/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Database was generated on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:45:11 GMT There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.87) available! [Current version is v1.61] 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... Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to read #/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to write #/Metadata Running install for module Pod::Simple Running make for A/AR/ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.04.tar.gz Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.fu...uthors/id/A/AR/ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.04.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/A/AR/ARANDAL/CHECKSUMS Checksum for #/sources/authors/id/A/AR/ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.04.tar.gz ok Scanning cache #/build for sizes gzip: #/sources/authors/id/A/AR/ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.04.tar.gz: No such file or directory gzip: #/sources/authors/id/A/AR/ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.04.tar.gz: No such file or directory /bin/tar: #/sources/authors/id/A/AR/ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.04.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Using Tar:/bin/tar xvf #/sources/authors/id/A/AR/ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.04.tar.gz: /bin/tar: #/sources/authors/id/A/AR/ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.04.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Couldn't untar #/sources/authors/id/A/AR/ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.04.tar.gz ~~~~~ Aaron
Please try to install Pod::Simple manually. Download it from CPAN.org, extract it, go to the Pod::Simple directory and run this: Code: perl Makefile.PL make make install
Dependancy Hell Yes, I am not really familuar with Perl either. Either I wipe Redhat 9 and start again or try to reinstall Perl, maybe easier. I was thinging if I can pose a proper question to put a question on comp.lang.perl.moderated and/or alt.perl. Aaron
Hi, how can I add path to script or to whatever to root PATH variable (on Debian)? and keep it permanent? If I just execute PATH=/aaaaa/bbbb/cccc/ then it replaces current PATH, and besides that it's lost after logout/new login
Set the path in your login script. If you're using bash, edit $HOME/.bashrc. Do Code: man bash and somewhere you'll find a lot of info which startup scripts the login process reads. There are multiple scripts you can add/modify this.
I needed quick solution last night. And it is: Code: In /root/.bash_profile PATH=$PATH:/aaaaa/bbbb/cccc/ export PATH Then log out and login again.
