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Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / June 2005Frickin' CPAN
Hi all, CPAN is being a pain in the a.s, and I don't know what the problem is. Here's an error message when I run "install Bundle::XML". Can't exec "/usr/bin": Permission denied at /System/Library/Perl/ 5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/IO/File.pm line 176, <FIN> line 1. Could not pipe[/usr/bin --decompress --stdout /var/root/.cpan/sources/ authors/01mailrc.txt.gz |]: Permission denied at /System/Library/Perl/ 5.8.6/CPAN.pm line 5727, <FIN> line 1. When I try to run "install XML::XPath" I get about 20 repetitions of Subroutine AUTOLOAD redefined at /sw/lib/perl5/5.8.6/darwin-thread- multi-2level/Compress/Zlib.pm line 84, <FIN> line 2 Regarding the first error, I don't see how I can have a permissions error when I'm running CPAN as the root user. Root has--I checked-- read, write, execute permissions in that directory (/System/Library/ etc, etc). Regarding the second error, I have no idea what that's about. Could fink have somehow messed up my perl installation. In case this helps, I'm running Perl 5.8.6 under OSX 10.4 on Macmini. I'm running all the install scripts as root. Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks. --John M > When I try to run "install XML::XPath" I get about 20 repetitions of > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks. Well, you could install ActivePerl, add it to your PATH, and then type ppm install XML-XPath and you should be all set. :) Cheers, -Jan Hi John, The permissions thing is a red herring. Look more closely at the error message. It's trying to run a program called "/usr/bin". Look at your CPAN configuration ("o conf" in the CPAN shell) to figure out why. -Ken > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > --John M Hi guys, Firewall problems? Or config problems? Or both? I've found that CPAN works when I run "sudo perl -MCPAN etc", but not when I run as root: "macbox:/ root# perl -MCPAN". I find that very strange, but hey, if it works as sudo, it works and that's all I need. However, it doesn't work very well. When I run CPAN it take FOREVER to download modules, but then installs them pretty quickly (at least when there aren't any errors--and I often have plenty). Could my firewall by interfering with CPAN? I don't have anything fancy: just the OSX Tiger firewall and a Netgear router on a home-office network. Do I need to tweak some obscure config file so that CPAN can get in and out of the firewall. PPM also takes forever to download, if it downloads at all. In case it help, I've appended the sudo/root config file below. Please let me know if anything's wrong w/ it. Many thanks, John Mercer /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/CPAN/Config.pm build_cache 20 build_dir /var/root/.cpan/build cache_metadata 1 cpan_home /var/root/.cpan dontload_hash ftp /usr/bin/ftp ftp_proxy getcwd cwd gpg gzip /usr/bin histfile /var/root/.cpan/histfile histsize 100 http_proxy inactivity_timeout 0 index_expire 1 inhibit_startup_message 0 keep_source_where /var/root/.cpan/sources lynx /sw/bin make /usr/bin/make make_arg make_install_arg makepl_arg ncftpget /usr/bin/ncftpget no_proxy pager /usr/bin/less prerequisites_policy ask scan_cache atstart shell /bin/sh tar /usr/bin term_is_latin 1 unzip /usr/bin urllist ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/pub/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.theshell.com/pub/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.uwsg.iu.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/ ftp://linux.cs.lewisu.edu/pub/CPAN ftp://mirror.candidhosting.com/pub/CPAN ftp://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/cpan/ ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/pub/CPAN/ ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/CPAN/ ftp://mirror.sg.depaul.edu/pub/CPAN/ ftp://mirror.sit.wisc.edu/pub/CPAN/ ftp://mirror.xmission.com/CPAN/ ftp://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CPAN ftp://mirrors.jtlnet.com/CPAN/ ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/pub/CPAN ftp://mirrors.phenominet.com/pub/CPAN/ ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/lang/CPAN/ ftp://perl.secsup.org/pub/perl/ http://cpan.belfry.net/ http://cpan.binarycompass.org http://cpan.mirrors.hoobly.com/ http://cpan.mirrors.nks.net/ wget /sw/bin/wget > Hi John, > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >> >> --John M You might want to take a look at that URL list. Try going to each site by hand and see how long it takes to connect. Move your fastest sites to the top of the list. - Larry > urllist > ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/pub/CPAN/ [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > http://cpan.mirrors.nks.net/ > wget /sw/bin/wget I feel like nobody's listening... Look at your 'tar', 'unzip', 'lynx', and 'gzip' entries. They don't actually include the name of the program. Here are the equivalent ones from my config: 'gzip' => q[/usr/bin/gzip], 'lynx' => q[], 'tar' => q[/usr/bin/tar], 'unzip' => q[/usr/bin/unzip], -Ken > Hi guys, > [quoted text clipped - 120 lines] >>> >>> --John M |
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