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Thanks. I think we are on to something here. But, I'm still not getting there.

In response to:

#perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Inline::MakeMaker

I get:

Inline::MakeMaker is up to date (6.17)

In response to:

#perl -MCPAN -e shell > x.txt 2>&1
cpan> install Inline

I get:

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9402)
Enter 'h' for help.

CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.13)
Going to read '/home/bxxxx/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:26:58 GMT
Running install for module 'Inline'
Running make for S/SI/SISYPHUS/Inline-0.45.tar.gz
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v2.033)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.66)
Warning: no success downloading '/home/bxxxx/.cpan/sources/authors/id/
+S/SI/SISYPHUS/Inline-0.45.tar.gz.tmp19401'. Giving up on it. at /usr/
+local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/FTP.pm line 837
    CPAN::FTP::hostdlhard('CPAN::FTP', 'ARRAY(0xb36880)', 'authors/id/
+S/SI/SISYPHUS/Inline-0.45.tar.gz', '/home/bxxxx/.cpan/sources/authors
+/id/S/SI/SISYPHUS/Inline-0...', 'HASH(0x2aaaacc87350)') called at /us
+r/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/FTP.pm line 515
    CPAN::FTP::hostdlxxx('CPAN::FTP', 'dlhard', 'undef', 'ARRAY(0xb368
+80)', 'authors/id/S/SI/SISYPHUS/Inline-0.45.tar.gz', '/home/bxxxx/.cp
+an/sources/authors/id/S/SI/SISYPHUS/Inline-0...', 'HASH(0x2aaaacc8735
+0)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/FTP.pm line 442
    CPAN::FTP::localize('CPAN::FTP', 'authors/id/S/SI/SISYPHUS/Inline-
+0.45.tar.gz', '/home/bxxxx/.cpan/sources/authors/id/S/SI/SISYPHUS/Inl
+ine-0...') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/Distribution.pm
+ line 379
    CPAN::Distribution::get_file_onto_local_disk('CPAN::Distribution=H
+ASH(0x2aaaac706340)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/Dist
+ribution.pm line 343
    CPAN::Distribution::get('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x2aaaac706340)')
+ called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 1677
    CPAN::Distribution::make('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x2aaaac706340)'
+) called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 287
+6
    CPAN::Distribution::test('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x2aaaac706340)'
+) called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 326
+6
    CPAN::Distribution::install('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x2aaaac70634
+0)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/Module.pm line 474
    eval {...} called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/Module.pm li
+ne 473
    CPAN::Module::rematein('CPAN::Module=HASH(0x5a7e6c0)', 'install') 
+called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/Module.pm line 576
    CPAN::Module::install('CPAN::Module=HASH(0x5a7e6c0)') called at /u
+sr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/Shell.pm line 1755
    CPAN::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell', 'install', 'Inline') called a
+t /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN/Shell.pm line 1935
    CPAN::Shell::__ANON__('CPAN::Shell', 'Inline') called at /usr/loca
+l/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 375
    eval {...} called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 372
    CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1

Client not fully configured, please proceed with configuring.

You have not configured a urllist and do not allow connections to the
internet to get a list of mirrors.  If you wish to get a list of CPAN
mirrors to pick from, use this command

    o conf init connect_to_internet_ok urllist

If you do not wish to get a list of mirrors and would prefer to set
your urllist manually, use just this command instead

    o conf init urllist

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This seems to say that a url list that I didn't know about before must be set up for CPAN to operate. My next two actions follow the instructions given in the error report above.

In response to:

cpan> o conf init urllist

I get two blank line feeds and a cpan> prompt. Thus, I think that the computer is saying that it is happy with this.

In response to:

cpan o conf init connect_to_internet_ok urllist

I get two blank line feeds and a cpan> prompt. Thus, I again think that the computer is saying that it is happy with this.

When I once again try:

#perl -MCPAN -e shell > x.txt 2>&1
cpan> install Device::USB

I get:

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9402)
Enter 'h' for help.

CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.13)
Going to read '/home/bcorbin/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:26:58 GMT
Running install for module 'Device::USB'
Running make for G/GW/GWADEJ/Device-USB-0.29.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.47)
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.02)
Checksum for /home/bcorbin/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GW/GWADEJ/Device
+-USB-0.29.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /home/bcorbin/.cpan/build for sizes
......................................................................
+......DONE
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.52)
Device-USB-0.29/
Device-USB-0.29/Changes
Device-USB-0.29/dump_usb.pl
Device-USB-0.29/Makefile.PL
Device-USB-0.29/MANIFEST.SKIP
Device-USB-0.29/MANIFEST
Device-USB-0.29/README
Device-USB-0.29/USB.pm
Device-USB-0.29/t/
Device-USB-0.29/t/17-usb_dev_endpoint.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/00-load.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/07-list_devices_if.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/05-find_device_if.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/02-find_busses_devices.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/15-usb_dev_configuration.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/06-list_devices.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/09-usb-bus.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/16-usb_dev_interface.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/14-bus_list_devices_if.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/11-usb-device-methods.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/boilerplate.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/04-find_device.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/pod-coverage.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/03-list_busses.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/08-get_busses.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/10-usb-device-accessors.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/13-bus_find_device_if.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/pod.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/TestTools.pm
Device-USB-0.29/t/12-constants.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/18-usb_device-configurations.t
Device-USB-0.29/t/01-create-usb.t
Device-USB-0.29/META.yml
Device-USB-0.29/lib/
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/DevConfig.pm
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/FAQ.pod
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/Device.pm
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/DevInterface.pm
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/DevEndpoint.pm
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB/Bus.pm
Device-USB-0.29/lib/Device/USB.pm
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22)
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.68)

  CPAN.pm: Going to build G/GW/GWADEJ/Device-USB-0.29.tar.gz

Undefined subroutine &main::WriteMakefile called at Makefile.PL line 5
+0.
Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=s
+ite]
  GWADEJ/Device-USB-0.29.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install
Failed during this command:
 GWADEJ/Device-USB-0.29.tar.gz                : writemakefile NO '/usr
+/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site' returned status 65280

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I ran through all of this several times as I was making notes and composing this posting. It took several passes before both of the "o conf" commands for urllist came back as successful. That makes me a little uneasy.

In the above error posting the following:

Warning: No success on command/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site
  GWADEJ/Device-USB-0.29.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- NOT OK

seems to be upset with a INSTALLDIRS variable or setting of some kind. I don't know what this is.

Still confused. Thanks for the help so far. Any additional suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Bruce

In reply to Re^4: trouble installing Device::USB by Bruce32903
in thread trouble installing Device::USB by Bruce32903

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