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Andrew Schulman schrieb:
> I'm trying to use cpan (perl 5.10.1-2) to install Spreadsheet::Read.
> When I try, I get a whole bunch of errors like e.g.
>
> Warning: expected file
> [/home/ASchulma/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6012]
> doesn't exist
>
> Error while trying to rename
> '/home/ASchulma/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6012' to
> '/home/ASchulma/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz': No such file
> or directoryLockfile removed.
>
> And indeed, the file 01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6012 doesn't exist:
>
> $ ls -l /home/ASchulma/.cpan/sources/authors
> total 5
> -rw-r-----+ 1 ASchulma Domain Users 779 2010-01-14 12:28 01mailrc.txt.tmp6012
> -rw-r-----+ 1 ASchulma Domain Users 388 2010-01-14 12:28 01mailrc.txt.tmp6012.gz
>
> It seems that cpan is trying to find 01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6012, when
> what it really wants is 01mailrc.txt.tmp6012.gz; or vice versa.
>
> cygcheck -srv output is attached.

This is a known problem when none of your CPAN download methods
(LWP, curl, wget, ...) work or your proxy is wrong or your mirror 
setting is wrong.
-- 
Reini Urban
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