RedHat 9: Install problems

Terrible PERL problems

PERL seems to be having terible problem installing CPAN :-

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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I am not at all familurar with PERL but it seems its CPAN.pm is out of date and its MetaData is out of date or incorrect.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

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[[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

 

Did you disable the firewall as I suggested?

 

install Pod::Simple

I am getting the following with the firewall turned off :-

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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

 

Circles

This is sending mke round in circles. It needs Pod::Escape and pod2man

Aaron

 

Looks like dependency hell.

 

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

 

I guess there's nothing more difficult than reinstalling Perl. You'll break lots of dependencies...

 

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.