Perl / CPAN / and Makefile.pl

[Pezman]

Ok guys,

I am sitting here hacked off as heck http://www.theunholytrinity.org/cracks_smileys/cwm/3dlil/mad.gif because I don't know enough about CPAN to have it work correctly.

I am trying to speed up my cgi-bin a little bit by useing these modules:

perl -MCPAN -e 'install IO::String'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Compress::Zlib'

So I tried to use the autoconfig on that CPAN has but it came back all fuxored. I did a manual configuration but I couldn't find unzip, ncftpget, ncftp.

I continued anyways... I tried to install the IO::String now and it told me I needed MD5. So I typed in..


www:/# perl -MCPAN -e'install MD5'
Going to read y/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read y/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Scanning cache y/build for sizes

There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.59) available!
You might want to try
install Bundle::CPAN
reload cpan
without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrade
while we are running...

Going to read y/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Running make for G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz
CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok
Fetching with Net::FTP:
ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz

CPAN: MD5 security checks disabled because MD5 not installed.
Please consider installing the MD5 module.

sh: y/sources/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz: No such file or directory
Could not open >y/build/GAAS000/Makefile.PL at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/CPAN.pm line 4006

it seems that Makefile.pl is fuxored and I am a total Newbie ( http://www.theunholytrinity.org/cracks_smileys/contrib/owen/newbie.gif ), and don't know what to really be doing about this. I have no online friends that are Linux intelligent so I am screwed.

Anyone have any advice?

[bdg1983]

Please limit your questions to only one forum as crossposting is frowned upon here and NOT necessary. Just read the Linuxnewbie FAQ's and it will tell you.

Thank-you kindly for your understanding.

[Pezman]

Sorry about that, I deleted the other thread, but my question outlined above is still outstanding... any help?

When I type...

www:/# perl -MIO::String -e ''

I get...

Can't locate IO/String.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

That means that makeperl.pl is broke or I have CPAN configured wrong. I really hope someone can help

[ 27 October 2001: Message edited by: Pezman ]

[bdg1983]

Sorry I don't, but at least your back at the top.

[bdg1983]

ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz

CPAN: MD5 security checks disabled because MD5 not installed.
Please consider installing the MD5 module.

Have you tried to manually d/l and install the MD5 package and then try the install again?

[Pezman]

Check out my second post it shows that it is more then MD5.