cpan wont update my mods

[shak75]

I am using cpan for the first time.
I wanted to update cpan but somehow I am coming up with these error messages.

cpan> install Bundle::CPAN

CPAN: MD5 security checks disabled because MD5 not installed.
Please consider installing the MD5 module.

gzip: y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz: No such file or directory
/bin/tar: y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

thanx,
shak.

 

[missbarbell]

It looks like you have a local directory lookup for new modules, when you actually want to lookup on the net.

Have a look in your $PerlInstall/lib/CPAN.Config.pm file and look at urllist. Mine is currently set to:

'urllist' => [q[ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/]],


which looks up the master CPAN FTP server. $PerlInstall should be replaced with whatever your standard perl directory is.

Barbie
Leader of Birmingham Perl Mongers

http://birmingham.pm.org

 

[shak75]

No, I dont believe that is the problem.
I checked the url. Its perfectly valid, the site is up and i was able to manually dl the file.
ftp://cpan.chebucto.ns.ca/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz

I still dont understand these errors:
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://cpan.chebucto.ns.ca/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to read y/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to write y/Metadata
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://cpan.chebucto.ns.ca/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz

CPAN: MD5 security checks disabled because MD5 not installed.
Please consider installing the MD5 module.

gzip: y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz: No such file or directory
/bin/tar: y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Using Tar:/bin/tar xvf y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz:
/bin/tar: y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Couldn't untar y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz

 

[missbarbell]

On further investigation, it looks like the settings in Config.pm might be referencing a bad directory.

your errors above reference 'y/' which would be from the current directory. This directory is the base install directory. Most people leave this as /.cpan/ which by the looks of it has somehow got corrupted. If /y/ is the directory you meant to use, you'll have to update the relavent entries in Config.pm. The ones to look at are:

'build_dir' => q[\.cpan\build\.],
'cpan_home' => q[\.cpan\.],
'keep_source_where' => q[\.cpan\sources\.],

Note that this is my Windows version, so on a Linux box the slashes should be the other way around.

If you have a /.cpan directory then it should be just a matter of fixing the paths above, otherwise you may have to try and reinstall CPAN by hand.

Barbie
Leader of Birmingham Perl Mongers

http://birmingham.pm.org