Problem installing Text::Diff

Hampster has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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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Re: Problem installing Text::Diff by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 04, 2010 at 16:04 UTC
Just out of curiosity, why do you specify the author's cpan path? I had no problem with `cpan> install Text::Diff` [download] instead of `cpan> install A/AD/ADAMK/Text-Diff-1.37.tar.gz` [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Problem installing Text::Diff by Hampster (Initiate) on Oct 04, 2010 at 17:11 UTC
Why did I specify the author's path? Well, hmmm, I am following directions in an install file and didn't know you can do it another way.... By the way what seemed to be the issue was that T/TY/TYEMQ/Algorithm-Diff-1.1902.tar.gz is a perquisite. I installed it and then Text::Diff and it works	[reply]
Re: Problem installing Text::Diff by Anonymous Monk on Oct 04, 2010 at 14:13 UTC
Here is some ideas pick a different mirror, pick more than one `cpan> look Text::Diff` then examine the files to see what got downloaded manually run `perl Makefile.PL make make test` [download] browse to http://search.cpan.org//http://kobesearch.cpan.org/ and download Text::Diff manually, then `tar -zxvf Text-Diff-1.37.tar.gz` ...	[reply] [d/l] [select]