Hi Martin,
thanks for your reply. Yes, I orginally tried to install using CPAN, but even CPAN doesn't seem to be working. Whenever I try to install anything I get this kind of error: 
cpan> install Net::Ping
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /var/root/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sat, 28 May 2005 20:56:04 GMT
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Useless content call in void context at /Library/Perl/5.8.1/LWP/Protoc
+ol/ftp.pm line 398
LWP failed with code[400] message[FTP return code 000]
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz

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etc.etc. I am not sure how to go about recompiling or resetting the CPAN module, since something seems to be fundamentally wrong here.

Would you have any tips for me??! Thanks, BR

In reply to Re^2: Installing DBD::MySQL on Mac OS X - Problems by blackrussian
in thread Installing DBD::MySQL on Mac OS X - Problems by blackrussian

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