Subject: Re: Problems with CPAN
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: "Tony Arnold" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:51:08 +0200

Hallo Tony,

Am Dienstag, 30. Juli 2002 um 16:00 schriebst du:

> Gerrit et al.,

>> To get a summary of all the modules you installed for 
>> perl-5.6.1 you can use the CPAN module (before you install 
>> perl-5.8.0), just start it as usual ($ /usr/bin/cpan) and 
>> type in the CPAN shell:
>> cpan> autobundle
>> to get a snapshot of 'your own' perl installation.
>> 
>> To reinstall all the modules (after installing perl-5.8.0) type in the
>> new CPAN shell:
>> cpan> install Bundle::Snapshot_2002_07_29_00

> I ran cpan suggested and it immediately told me there was a new version
> available and how to install it, so from the cpan prompt, I typed:

>         install Bundle::CPAN

> Part way through it said it could not find a Perl 5 with the following
> message:

> Unable to find a perl 5 (by these names: /usr/bin/perl miniperl perl
> perl5 perl5.6.1, in these dirs: /usr/local/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin
> /bin /usr/X11R6/bin /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32 /cygdrive/c/WINNT

Strange things happen (on Windows sometimes).

Have you tried to install another module instead of Bundle::CPAN?
A newer version of CPAN is included in perl-5.8.0 (not the latest), try
to run 'autobundle' with the old perl and install the new perl then.

Maybe a reboot helps?

Gerrit
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