Re: Re: CPAN problem (gzip missing)

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Re (3): CPAN problem (gzip missing) by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on Apr 29, 2003 at 14:30 UTC
When you typed "o conf gzip" did it show you a path to the executable? To be more specific, you should type something like `o conf gzip /path/to/your/gzip`to set the path that CPAN.pm will use to find gzip.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re (3): CPAN problem (gzip missing) by irvken (Initiate) on Apr 29, 2003 at 21:41 UTC
actually what I got when using CPAN for gzip was just the string - 'gzip' `# perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.61) ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN') cpan> o conf gzip gzip` [download] like so I have 2 possible paths to gzip /bin/gzip and /usr/bin/gzip I'll try both and get back to you	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re (3): CPAN problem (gzip missing) by irvken (Initiate) on Apr 30, 2003 at 07:15 UTC
Thank you that worked a treat, it seems to get a bit further along with executing the script now but crashes out further on now with this error message `Scanning cache y/build for sizes gzip: y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.70.tar.gz: No such file or + directory CPAN.pm needs either both external programs tar and gzip installed or both the modules Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib. Neither prerequisite is available. Can't continue.` [download] now I did the same for tar as I did for gzip in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN/Config.pm , but I don't know what syntax I use to get the modules installed.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re (3): CPAN problem (gzip missing) by irvken (Initiate) on Apr 30, 2003 at 08:40 UTC
ok, I'm abit further along now, tar and gzip appear to be configured properly and working, but this "y" dir seems to be still causing a problem. I put the full path in the CPAN Config.pm file which worked a bit (i.e the script ran abit longer), but both the Scoop install script and install Bundle::CPAN crash out at the same place. I have created an alternative path to the files without the y dir, but don't know how to change what the script executes as it imports the path from elsewhere. see below - Couldn't rename CPAN-1.70 to y/build/CPAN-1.70: No such file or direct +ory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 3868 CPAN::Distribution::get('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x93dc31c)') +called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 4873 CPAN::Bundle::contains('CPAN::Bundle=HASH(0x90f57c0)') called +at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 4835 CPAN::Bundle::color_cmd_tmps('CPAN::Bundle=HASH(0x90f57c0)',0, +1) called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 2018 CPAN::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell','install','Bundle::CPAN') +called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 2102 CPAN::Shell::install('CPAN::Shell','Bundle::CPAN') called at / +usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 186 eval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 186 CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1 [download]	[reply] [d/l]