[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Installing CPAN Error

[Joe Atzberger]

Yeah, try updating CPAN (sudo cpan; upgrade CPAN) to get a fresher mirror
list.  Then give it more and better mirrors to choose from.  Also be sure to
check firewall issues, since your connection is getting refused, not just a
DNS error or no response.

Sometimes it helps to install helper programs that CPAN uses, like wget and
curl, and then tell cpan about them via o conf (or the longer config the
first time you use CPAN).

--Joe

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Rebecca Larocque <
Rebecca.LAROCQUE at cityofnorthbay.ca> wrote:

>  Hello all – long time lurker, first time poster.
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> Right now, I’m setting up a test server for Evergreen on a spare computer running Ubuntu 8.04 (“Hardy Heron”).  I’ll spare you the details of how it took a total of five hours to set up the user “opensrf”, suffice to say I finally managed it this afternoon.  Everything was going well until I got to the step where you install the software prerequisites (step #3); I entered “make -f src/extras/Makefile.install ubutu-hardy”; it ran through the installation until it got to this point:
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> Please enter your CPAN site: []
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> CPAN.pm needs at least one URL where it can fetch CPAN files from.
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> The default site wasn’t working, so I found an alternate mirror site and entered that URL.  This is what happened next:
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> commit: wrote /etc/perl/CPAN/Config.pm
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> Fetching with LWP:
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>   ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
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> LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: Connection refused]
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> Fetching with Net::FTP:
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>   ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
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> *[Snip]*
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> Could not fetch authors/id/T/TM/TMTM/Class-DBI-0.96.tar.gz
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> Giving up on '/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/T/TM/TMTM/Class-DBI-0.96.tar.gz'
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> make: *** [install_cpan_force] Error 2
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> I tried running “make” again, but it didn’t allow me to try another mirror site.  Is it just a matter of throwing mirror FTP sites at it until something works, or is it something less obvious?
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> Thanks,
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> Rebecca
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> *Rebecca Larocque*
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> Head of Information Services, North Bay Public Library
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>  271 Worthington St. East
> North Bay, ON P1B 1H1
> 705-474-4830 FAX 705-495-4010
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> rebecca.larocque at cityofnorthbay.ca
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> *"[N]othing is more fatal to the maidenly delicacy of speech than the run
> of a good library." -Robertson Davies*
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