On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:57:06AM -0600, Tim Wilson wrote: > I'm trying to install some Perl modules using CPAN. (I don't know much > about Perl or CPAN unforutnately.) I'm getting the following error > message when I try to use this program to install the dependencies > necessary to run the RT issue tracking software that I asked the list > about recently: > > [root at forums rt-3-0-6]# perl sbin/rt-test-dependencies --with-postgres > --with-modperl1 --install > perl: > 5.8.0...found > MASON dependencies: > Params::Validate 0.02...MISSING > CPAN: Storable loaded ok > Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > > gzip: /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz: not in gzip format > Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz > > gzip: /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz: not in > gzip format > Warning: Your /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz > does not contain a Line-Count header. > Please check the validity of the index file by comparing it to more > than one CPAN mirror. I'll continue but problems seem likely to > happen. > Warning: Your /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz > does not contain a Last-Updated header. > Please check the validity of the index file by comparing it to more > than one CPAN mirror. I'll continue but problems seem likely to > happen. > Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz > > gzip: /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz: not in gzip format > > Is it possible that whatever external program that is being used to > download these files is doing the gunzip on the fly and messing up the > perl script that is expecting a .gz file? Any other suggestions? > Have you done anything with CPAN yet? If not, then the package files won't be there. What does 'ls -lR /root/.cpan/sources/' say? If they're missing, you can do: # perl -MCPAN -e shell to set up your CPAN module. That might download them. 'perldoc CPAN' for gory details. -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list