Re^2: Installing DBD::MySQL on Mac OS X

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

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Re^3: Installing DBD::MySQL on Mac OS X - Problems by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 19, 2005 at 14:38 UTC
Hi blackrussian, To reconfigure the CPAN module options type "o conf init" from the "cpan>" prompt. This is in the CPAN.pm documentation. Reselecting your mirrors may be the answer here, if you are unable to FTP any modules down. Can you manually ftp this file from the location in the error message? Let me know how you get on. Hope this helps. Martin	[reply]