Hi all aving great problems with installing and using CPAN can not find the FTP site at Demon, I am not sjure how to change the settings and specify another location. Find below the output from my box. As always any help greatfully recieved.
<SNIP> fluffy:/home/james# perl -MCPAN -e shell; There seems to be running another CPAN process (3278). Contacting... Other job not responding. Shall I overwrite the lockfile? (Y/N) [y] cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.48) ReadLine support available (try ``install Bundle::CPAN'') cpan> install bundle::cpan CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/perl/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Net::FTP: Illegal seek at /usr/lib/perl5/LWP/Protocol/ftp.pm line 83 Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/perl/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/perl/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.g z Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Scanning cache /root/.cpan/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... Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/perl/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz Warning: Cannot install bundle::cpan, don't know what it is. Try the command i /bundle::cpan/ to find objects with similar identifiers. cpan> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wesley Wannemacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "james (home)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 9:35 AM Subject: RE: Instaling dbi in debian > apt-get install libdbd-mysql-perl. > > You will have to read up on the DBI. > > zless /usr/share/doc/libdbd-mysql-perl/README.gz > > /Wes > > Wesley A. Wannemacher > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Instructor, Network Administrator > University of Northwestern Ohio > http://www.unoh.edu > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: james (home) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 5:17 PM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Instaling dbi in debian > > > > > > I have installed Perl 5, it works ;-) > > > > I have installed Mysql, it works also > > > > Now someone tell me about DBI ? > > > > Is there an easy way to install this (apt-get install DBI) > > > > Also my book on perl and mysql says about using PPM, but > > this I guess needs > > instaling too ;-) > > > > Any help getting this up and running greatfully taken !! > > > > Cheers > > > > James. > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
