Hi. I tried to install Text::Diff from CPAN using the following but it will not install... :( install A/AD/ADAMK/Text-Diff-1.37.tar.gz Here is the log:
[myserver][/usr/local/perl/bin]$ perl -MCPAN -e shell Terminal does not support AddHistory. cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7601) ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN') cpan> install A/AD/ADAMK/Text-Diff-1.37.tar.gz CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /home/myserver/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Sun, 03 Oct 2010 11:29:20 GMT Running make for A/AD/ADAMK/Text-Diff-1.37.tar.gz CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/Text-Diff-1.37.tar +.gz CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS Caught SIGINT Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS.gz Trying to get away with old file: 51527938 292 -rw-r--r-- 1 2144 101 291279 Sep 30 2008 /h +ome/myserver/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS Warning: No md5 checksum for Text-Diff-1.37.tar.gz in /home/myserver/. +cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS. The cause for this may be that the file is very new and the checksum has not yet been calculated, but it may also be that something is going awry right now. Proceed? [yes] yes Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/local/perl/lib/5.8.7/C +PAN.pm line 4467, <STDIN> line 1. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/local/perl/lib/5.8.7/C +PAN.pm line 4470, <STDIN> line 1. CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AD/ADAMK/Text-Diff-1.37.tar.gz Use of uninitialized value in chdir at /usr/local/perl/lib/5.8.7/CPAN. +pm line 4487, <STDIN> line 1. Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() is deprecated at /usr/loca +l/perl/lib/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 4487, <STDIN> line 1. Can't open perl script "Makefile.PL": No such file or directory Panic: no build_dir? at /usr/local/perl/lib/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 4666, < +STDIN> line 1. cpan> install A/AD/ADAMK/Text-Diff-1.37.tar.gz Running make for A/AD/ADAMK/Text-Diff-1.37.tar.gz Warning: No md5 checksum for Text-Diff-1.37.tar.gz in /home/myserver/. +cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS. The cause for this may be that the file is very new and the checksum has not yet been calculated, but it may also be that something is going awry right now. Proceed? [yes] yes Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS.gz Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS Fetching with Net::FTP ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS.gz Couldn't fetch CHECKSUMS.gz from ftp.perl.org Trying with "/bin/lynx -source" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS sh: /bin/lynx: No such file or directory Trying with "/bin/lynx -source" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS.gz sh: /bin/lynx: No such file or directory Trying with "/bin/wget -O -" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS sh: /bin/wget: No such file or directory Trying with "/bin/wget -O -" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS.gz sh: /bin/wget: No such file or directory No external ftp command available Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file () are va +lid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/ +' Could not fetch authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS Trying to get away with old file: 51527938 292 -rw-r--r-- 1 2144 101 291279 Sep 30 2008 /h +ome/myserver/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS Warning: No md5 checksum for Text-Diff-1.37.tar.gz in /home/myserver/. +cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS. The cause for this may be that the file is very new and the checksum has not yet been calculated, but it may also be that something is going awry right now. Proceed? [yes] yes Scanning cache /home/myserver/.cpan/build for sizes CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok Text-Diff-1.37/ Text-Diff-1.37/META.yml Text-Diff-1.37/README Text-Diff-1.37/Makefile.PL Text-Diff-1.37/LICENSE Text-Diff-1.37/lib/ Text-Diff-1.37/lib/Text/ Text-Diff-1.37/lib/Text/Diff.pm Text-Diff-1.37/lib/Text/Diff/ Text-Diff-1.37/lib/Text/Diff/Table.pm Text-Diff-1.37/MANIFEST Text-Diff-1.37/Changes Text-Diff-1.37/t/ Text-Diff-1.37/t/keygen.t Text-Diff-1.37/t/outputs.t Text-Diff-1.37/t/table.t Text-Diff-1.37/t/general.t Text-Diff-1.37/t/97_meta.t Text-Diff-1.37/t/99_pmv.t Text-Diff-1.37/t/inputs.t Text-Diff-1.37/t/98_pod.t Text-Diff-1.37/t/ext_format.t Makefile.PL returned status 512 Running make test Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't test Running make install Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't install cpan>

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