SPUG: Two problems with CPAN
Itay Furman
itayf at fhcrc.org
Thu Aug 19 18:08:42 CDT 2004
Hi,
I have two (unrelated ?) problems using CPAN. I am not an
expert cpan user, and need help to interpret what has
happened. Please see below.
itayf at cezanne 40|0> perl -MCPAN -e 'print $CPAN::VERSION,"\n"'
1.76
itayf at cezanne 44|0> perl -V | head -4
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0)
configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.4.21-1.1931.2.382.entsmp, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
uname='linux stripples.devel.redhat.com 2.4.21-1.1931.2.382.entsmp #1 smp wed aug 6 17:18:52 edt 2003 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux '
Thanks in advance,
Itay
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1. Text::BibTex installation
The module seem to be around,
==== BEGIN QUOTE ====
cpan> i /Text::BibTex/
Module Text::BibTeX (G/GW/GWARD/Text-BibTeX-0.31.tar.gz)
Module Text::BibTeX::BibFormat (G/GW/GWARD/Text-BibTeX-0.34.tar.gz)
Module Text::BibTeX::BibSort (G/GW/GWARD/Text-BibTeX-0.34.tar.gz)
Module Text::BibTeX::Entry (G/GW/GWARD/Text-BibTeX-0.34.tar.gz)
Module Text::BibTeX::File (G/GW/GWARD/Text-BibTeX-0.34.tar.gz)
Module Text::BibTeX::Name (G/GW/GWARD/Text-BibTeX-0.34.tar.gz)
Module Text::BibTeX::NameFormat (G/GW/GWARD/Text-BibTeX-0.34.tar.gz)
Module Text::BibTeX::Structure (G/GW/GWARD/Text-BibTeX-0.34.tar.gz)
Module Text::BibTeX::Value (G/GW/GWARD/Text-BibTeX-0.34.tar.gz)
9 items found
==== END QUOTE ====
but when I try to install it, I get the following message:
==== BEGIN QUOTE ====
cpan> install Text::BibTex
Warning: Cannot install Text::BibTex, don't know what it is.
Try the command
i /Text::BibTex/
to find objects with matching identifiers.
==== END QUOTE ====
Does it mean a problem on my end, or is the module simply
not installable via CPAN?
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2. CPAN upgrade
Due to 1 above I tried to upgrade CPAN -- just in case.
Here is what I get. Note the statement below
'CPAN is up to date.'
and the statement further below
'CPAN.pm panic: ...'
==== BEGIN QUOTE ====
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
[snip: very long output.
Attempted to update Cwd, Zlib::IO, and possibly some
other modules. I'm not clear if they were
successful.]
CPAN is up to date.
Bundle summary: The following items in bundle Bundle::CPAN
had installation problems:
Archive::Tar Bundle::libnet and the following items had
problems during recursive bundle calls: Data::Dumper
CPAN.pm panic: deep recursion in color_cmd_tmps depth[100]
self[CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x9aa26f8)]
id[K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Cwd-2.20.tar.gz]
cpan>
==== END QUOTE ====
Should I be worried that I broke CPAN module?
If yes, where do I go from here?
Once again: thank you for your time.
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