Hi Monks and Nuns. Here's another node that's not about perl coding per se but is instead about perl infrastructure/tool setup/installation.

Attempting to install Pinto on Linux - seeing error "! Couldn't find module or a distribution Pinto"

I am trying to bootstrap the Pinto perl module management application on a machine running Debian Gnu/Linux. I have already had Pinto running on a different (Cygwin Perl) system for some months, so I thought I knew my way around the setup. But over the last two days I've repeatedly gotten the same error in the terminal when trying to set up:


! Couldn't find module or a distribution Pinto

This error message is (obviously?) coming from cpanm, which the Pinto setup script bootstraps. I see this error manifests when cpanm attempts to download Pinto and its dependencies from the online repository its author had set up. That repo has the url https://www.stratopan.com/thaljef/OpenSource/pinto-release . It looks like a network problem, doesn't it? So when I do


$ ping -c4 stratopan.com

... I get no replies to my ping, although the domain does resolve to 138.68.43.143. But when I point a browser at https://www.stratopan.com I land on an active home page, although Firefox warns me about expired certificates.

It's a lot to ask maybe, but could a reader just try it (setting up Pinto)? It's a one-line command:


$ curl -L http://getpinto.stratopan.com | bash

Very grateful thanks for applying some brain-power / knowledge to this problem I'm having. And, PS, wouldn't it be theoretically possible to copy over all the module dependencies from my CygPerl installation of Pinto to the Linux machine? I've looked, but I can't find a set-aside heirarchy of such modules.

Feb 03, 2026 at 18:45 UTC

In reply to Has Pinto become broken for new installs? - bootstrapped cpanm cannot find Pinto by Intrepid

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