in reply to CPAN crashes out

You don't mention what platform you have... but judging from your paths, it must be a derivative of Unix.

Anyway, the problem appears to be in creating the makefile for CPAN.pm. Try doing the manual installation, when you get the necessary archives. You know: expand the archive, chdir to the main directory, type perl Makefile.PL, next make, make test, make install — only continuing on the next step if the previous step didn't barf. You can read the whole official checklist in perlfaq8, and likely in the README file of any module you may try to install.

I expect it to bust on perl Makefile.PL. Perhaps it may give you more detailed info on what is wrong.

If you get it to install, and the new CPAN still doesn't work right, feel free to come back.

p.s. Are you sure you have the required permission to install modules? It looks like you run CPAN as yourself, not as root, by the look of CPAN's home directory.

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Re: Re: CPAN crashes out
by irvken (Initiate) on May 01, 2003 at 12:08 UTC
    heh, I'm running Red hat 8.0 Linux and all I wanted to do was install a Content management system (scoop) to create a website/log. I've been at it 3 days now :( , and appear to have made a right pigs ear of it (I fear I may have to trash my hard drive and start all over again pretty soon, I've got weird files/paths/permmisions all over the place). I was not intending to end up in the corridors of this Monastery at all.

    OK then, a couple of questions concerning your advice

    1. When you say "Try doing the manual installation, when you get the necessary archives." do you mean Perl or CPAN?

    2. What is the proper place to unpack the archive when I've got it?
    I think a lot of my previous problems are down to not unarchiving in the right place.

    Thanks for your help
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      Answers:
      1. CPAN — I think it's there that it fails
      2. doesn't matter where, as long as you have the right to create files there
      What could matter, is having write access in the final stage, make install, but we'll get to that if you get that far. Er, when. :]
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