[Techtalk] Perl CPAN problem

[Malin Blomqvist]

Hi!
I'm no Perl wiz but I've asked around a bit. You're running a very old version
of Perl, so you could try and manually download a newer CPAN.pm from CPAN first
and then try again. Or just reinstall Perl... Good luck! :)

/Malin

"Nosferatu!!!" wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> I just learned about the "perl -MCPAN -eshell" magic!!!
> But, I'm getting the following error when I do install Bundle:CPAN
>
> cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
> Can't install Bundle::CPAN, don't have an associated bundle file. :-(
>  at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/CPAN.pm line 1717
>
> Initially it tries to connect to configured FTP site but then it
> fails because the host (cpan.in.freeos.com) actually does not seem to exist!
> I "pushed" another URL with "o conf push" and retried install and thats
> when I get the above error.
>
> Anybody know what is going on? Oh yes, in my eagerness I've still
> not perldocED CPAN totally - just couldn't wait to go through the
> whole. Well, maybe now I have to :-/
>
> Nosferatu
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