On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 00:52:17 +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:33:39AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: > > The installation instructions of a piece of software I'm considering > > asks me to fetch several (ok, a lot of) modules from CPAN. Since this > > will be adding software to my Debian system, is this safe? Is there a > > Debianized way to do this? > > dh-make-perl > > It's exactly what you're looking for. :-)
I hope its okay to add a question in this place, it seems related. I use Potato, so the package mentioned is not available. Trying to install SpamAssassin I need to get some CPAN modules. The problem with: perl -MCPAN -e shell (from the SpamAssassin instructions) is that the installation is unable to access external files from the net. It goes out and tries ncftp, ftp and lynx which all return errors of some sort. Funny thing is that my net configuration seems allright, because I could manually get 'MIRRORED.BY' with those programs on the same machine. Unfortunately the same error came back when getting the actual program. Am I missing something obvious here? Any hints much appreciated! -- Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
