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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Thursday May 24, 2007

11:55 AM

CPAN? What CPAN?

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Having a new MacBook, I've immediately tried to get CPAN running on it. Regrettably, I get error messages like the following:

/opt/local/bin $ sudo cpan Terminal does not support AddHistory. cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7601) ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN') cpan> install Bundle::CPAN CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /Users/ovid/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Sun, 20 May 2007 00:54:28 GMT CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/01mail rc.txt.gz LWP failed with code[404] message[File '01mailrc.txt.gz' not found] Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/01mail rc.txt.gz Couldn't fetch 01mailrc.txt.gz from ftp.mirror.ac.uk Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/0 1mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code[400] message[FTP return code 150] Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/0 1mailrc.txt.gz Couldn't fetch 01mailrc.txt.gz from ftp.mirrorservice.org Issuing "/usr/bin/ftp -n" Connected to ftp.mirror.ac.uk.

Google hasn't been much help. What's worse, the CPAN ChangeLog doesn't really seem to match up the CPAN version with the changes. Ugh.

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UK Mirrors suck (Score:2)

by Matts (1087)

Try flirble.org or whatever it's called.
install XCode (Score:1)

by groditi (7482)

did you install XCode first? You are going to need to, my macbook had no 'make' until I did. Same thing for other similar command line tools. I highly suggest you take a look at one of the port systems and install some basics before you get to playing with the shell.
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  by Ovid (2709)
  
  I already have Darwin Ports and XCode installed. The problem went away after I manually upgraded CPAN.pm.
Check your built in firewall (Score:1)

by Stevan (6065)

Ovid
Try turning off the built-in firewall, I have had issues with CPAN connecting while that was on.
- Stevan
See this thread @ perlmonks (Score:1)

by florian (7925)

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=382225 [perlmonks.org] of course you need xcode too, but i guess you already installed it ;)

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UK Mirrors suck (Score:2)

install XCode (Score:1)

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Check your built in firewall (Score:1)

See this thread @ perlmonks (Score:1)