Re: CPAN problem ( I think)

It appears you answered 'y' when asked what directory to use for storing cpan information, so now cpan is trying to use a relative path to a directory named 'y' when reading the stored files. This may work, if you also answered 'y' when asked to create that directory, but because it is a relative path it will only work if you run CPAN from the same directory where you installed it. Try changing the cpan_home setting to a more reasonable (and fully qualified) directory name (run perl -MCPAN -eshell, then enter 'o conf cpan_home /home/me/.cpan' and 'o conf commit').

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Re: Re: CPAN problem ( I think) by irvken (Initiate) on Apr 29, 2003 at 10:47 UTC
Oh yes, I do have that directory (y) ;the first time I ran the scoop install it did go through setting up CPAN and it must have got in there then. It crashed out at a later stage, but of course this problem has prevented me from running it again since. I've no idea where Scoop installed CPAN, what should I be looking for? I've run your commands re: resetting the cpan_home setting, without any errors, but it hasn't made any diffrence. Thank you very much for your help though.	[reply]

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Re: Re: CPAN problem ( I think)
by irvken (Initiate) on Apr 29, 2003 at 10:47 UTC

Oh yes, I do have that directory (y) ;the first time I ran the scoop install it did go through setting up CPAN and it must have got in there then. It crashed out at a later stage, but of course this problem has prevented me from running it again since. I've no idea where Scoop installed CPAN, what should I be looking for? I've run your commands re: resetting the cpan_home setting, without any errors, but it hasn't made any diffrence. Thank you very much for your help though.

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