in reply to cpan broken?

You've got two unrelated issues I think.

If you look at http://testers.cpan.org/show/HTML-Tidy.html you'll see HTML::Tidy is getting a lot of FAIL results.

I'm not sure what's up with Authen::Simple. I get the same error from cpan -O as you, but it shouldn't stop you from performing any other cpan operations

Since you've got perl 5.10.0 installed, why not use cpanp instead of cpan? At least it doesn't complain about Authen::Simple.

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Re^2: cpan broken?
by Gokee2 (Acolyte) on Aug 04, 2008 at 20:27 UTC
    I have never heard of cpanp before. Is it better? Looks like I can`t just say cpanp HTML::Tidy to try and install...

    Hmm interesting with the testers thing. If I use the -f switch to install tidy will tidy not work or would it be ok?

    Thanks!
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      cpanp is the new, improved cpan but there is little difference in use. To install a package use

      cpanp i HTML::Tidy

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      or

      cpanp t HTML::Tidy

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      just to download and test it.

      I'm fairly confident that HTML::Tidy won't work though. There's a bunch of errors being reported in the author's XS code so forcing an install isn't going to work.

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        So is there any way to get a working copy of HTML:Tidy?
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