[Koha] Fwd: CPAN installation Error

[Joe Atzberger]

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From: Joe Atzberger <ohiocore at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Koha] CPAN installation Error
To: shriram pandey <ram.mlib at gmail.com>


It looks like you have very limited internet connection during your CPAN
operations, so it fails to retrieve files it needs.  This is probably
related to the configuration of your proxy.  I recommend connecting directly
(without the proxy) until you get the basic setup complete.

Otherwise manually key in a known mirror or two that you want to use, or
download the mirror list yourself and copy it to /root/.cpan/sources/
MIRRORED.BY <http://mirrored.by/>

--Joe Atzberger


On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:16 AM, shriram pandey <ram.mlib at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear List members,
>   i am getting fallowing error during cpan installtion,
>
> root at shriram-home:~# cpan
> We have to reconfigure CPAN.pm due to following uninitialized parameters:
>
> cpan_home, keep_source_where, build_dir, build_cache, scan_cache,
> index_expire, gzip, tar, unzip, make, pager, makepl_arg, make_arg,
> make_install_arg, urllist, inhibit_startup_message, ftp_proxy,
> http_proxy, no_proxy, prerequisites_policy, cache_metadata
>
> /etc/perl/CPAN/Config.pm initialized.
>
>
> CPAN is the world-wide archive of perl resources. It consists of about
> 100 sites that all replicate the same contents all around the globe.
> Many countries have at least one CPAN site already. The resources
> found on CPAN are easily accessible with the CPAN.pm module. If you
> want to use CPAN.pm, you have to configure it properly.
>
> If you do not want to enter a dialog now, you can answer 'no' to this
> question and I'll try to autoconfigure. (Note: you can revisit this
> dialog anytime later by typing 'o conf init' at the cpan prompt.)
>
> Are you ready for manual configuration? [yes]
>
>
> The following questions are intended to help you with the
> configuration. The CPAN module needs a directory of its own to cache
> important index files and maybe keep a temporary mirror of CPAN files.
> This may be a site-wide directory or a personal directory.
>
>
>
> I see you already have a  directory
>    /root/.cpan
> Shall we use it as the general CPAN build and cache directory?
>
> CPAN build and cache directory? [/root/.cpan]
>
>
> If you want, I can keep the source files after a build in the cpan
> home directory. If you choose so then future builds will take the
> files from there. If you don't want to keep them, answer 0 to the
> next question.
>
>
>
> How big should the disk cache be for keeping the build directories
> with all the intermediate files?
>
> Cache size for build directory (in MB)? [10]
>
>
> By default, each time the CPAN module is started, cache scanning
> is performed to keep the cache size in sync. To prevent from this,
> disable the cache scanning with 'never'.
>
> Perform cache scanning (atstart or never)? [atstart]
>
>
> To considerably speed up the initial CPAN shell startup, it is
> possible to use Storable to create a cache of metadata. If Storable
> is not available, the normal index mechanism will be used.
>
> Cache metadata (yes/no)? [yes]
>
>
> The next option deals with the charset your terminal supports. In
> general CPAN is English speaking territory, thus the charset does not
> matter much, but some of the aliens out there who upload their
> software to CPAN bear names that are outside the ASCII range. If your
> terminal supports UTF-8, you say no to the next question, if it
> supports ISO-8859-1 (also known as LATIN1) then you say yes, and if it
> supports neither nor, your answer does not matter, you will not be
> able to read the names of some authors anyway. If you answer no, names
> will be output in UTF-8.
>
> Your terminal expects ISO-8859-1 (yes/no)? [yes]
>
>
> If you have one of the readline packages (Term::ReadLine::Perl,
> Term::ReadLine::Gnu, possibly others) installed, the interactive CPAN
> shell will have history support. The next two questions deal with the
> filename of the history file and with its size. If you do not want to
> set this variable, please hit SPACE RETURN to the following question.
>
> File to save your history? [/root/.cpan/histfile]
> Number of lines to save? [100]
>
>
> The CPAN module can detect when a module that which you are trying to
> build depends on prerequisites. If this happens, it can build the
> prerequisites for you automatically ('follow'), ask you for
> confirmation ('ask'), or just ignore them ('ignore'). Please set your
> policy to one of the three values.
>
> Policy on building prerequisites (follow, ask or ignore)? [ask]
>
>
> The CPAN module will need a few external programs to work properly.
> Please correct me, if I guess the wrong path for a program. Don't
> panic if you do not have some of them, just press ENTER for those. To
> disable the use of a download program, you can type a space followed
> by ENTER.
>
> Where is your gzip program? [/bin/gzip]
> Where is your tar program? [/bin/tar]
> Where is your unzip program? [/usr/bin/unzip]
> Where is your make program? [/usr/bin/make]
> Warning: lynx not found in PATH
> Where is your lynx program? [] /usr/bin/
> Where is your wget program? [/usr/bin/wget]
> Warning: ncftpget not found in PATH
> Where is your ncftpget program? [] /usr/bin/ncftpget
> Where is your ftp program? [/usr/bin/ftp]
> Where is your gpg program? [/usr/bin/gpg]
> What is your favorite pager program? [/usr/bin/less]
> What is your favorite shell? [/bin/bash]
>
>
> Every Makefile.PL is run by perl in a separate process. Likewise we
> run 'make' and 'make install' in processes. If you have any
> parameters (e.g. PREFIX, LIB, UNINST or the like) you want to pass
> to the calls, please specify them here.
>
> If you don't understand this question, just press ENTER.
>
> Parameters for the 'perl Makefile.PL' command?
> Typical frequently used settings:
>
>    PREFIX=~/perl       non-root users (please see manual for more hints)
>
> Your choice:  [INSTALLDIRS=site]
> Parameters for the 'make' command?
> Typical frequently used setting:
>
>    -j3              dual processor system
>
> Your choice:  []
> Parameters for the 'make install' command?
> Typical frequently used setting:
>
>    UNINST=1         to always uninstall potentially conflicting files
>
> Your choice:  []
>
>
> Sometimes you may wish to leave the processes run by CPAN alone
> without caring about them. As sometimes the Makefile.PL contains
> question you're expected to answer, you can set a timer that will
> kill a 'perl Makefile.PL' process after the specified time in seconds.
>
> If you set this value to 0, these processes will wait forever. This is
> the default and recommended setting.
>
> Timeout for inactivity during Makefile.PL? [0]
>
>
> If you're accessing the net via proxies, you can specify them in the
> CPAN configuration or via environment variables. The variable in
> the $CPAN::Config takes precedence.
>
> Your ftp_proxy?  proxy2.lnmiit.ac.in
> Your http_proxy? [http://proxy2.lnmiit.ac.in:3128/]
> Your no_proxy?  localhost, 127.0.0.1,172.22.10.1
>
>
> If your proxy is an authenticating proxy, you can store your username
> permanently. If you do not want that, just press RETURN. You will then
> be asked for your username in every future session.
>
> Your proxy user id?  3128
>
>
> Your password for the authenticating proxy can also be stored
> permanently on disk. If this violates your security policy, just press
> RETURN. You will then be asked for the password in every future
> session.
>
> CPAN: Term::ReadKey loaded ok
> Your proxy password?
>
> You have no /root/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY
>  I'm trying to fetch one
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
> Fetching with LWP:
>  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
> Fetching with LWP:
>  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz
> CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
>  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
> Fetching with Net::FTP
>  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz
>
> root at shriram-home:~# cpan
> We have to reconfigure CPAN.pm due to following uninitialized parameters:
>
> cpan_home, keep_source_where, build_dir, build_cache, scan_cache,
> index_expire, gzip, tar, unzip, make, pager, makepl_arg, make_arg,
> make_install_arg, urllist, inhibit_startup_message, ftp_proxy,
> http_proxy, no_proxy, prerequisites_policy, cache_metadata
>
> /etc/perl/CPAN/Config.pm initialized.
>
>
>
> CPAN is the world-wide archive of perl resources. It consists of about
> 100 sites that all replicate the same contents all around the globe.
> Many countries have at least one CPAN site already. The resources
> found on CPAN are easily accessible with the CPAN.pm module. If you
> want to use CPAN.pm, you have to configure it properly.
>
> If you do not want to enter a dialog now, you can answer 'no' to this
> question and I'll try to autoconfigure. (Note: you can revisit this
> dialog anytime later by typing 'o conf init' at the cpan prompt.)
>
> Are you ready for manual configuration? [yes]
>
> The following questions are intended to help you with the
> configuration. The CPAN module needs a directory of its own to cache
> important index files and maybe keep a temporary mirror of CPAN files.
> This may be a site-wide directory or a personal directory.
>
>
>
> I see you already have a  directory
>    /root/.cpan
> Shall we use it as the general CPAN build and cache directory?
>
> CPAN build and cache directory? [/root/.cpan]
>
>
> If you want, I can keep the source files after a build in the cpan
> home directory. If you choose so then future builds will take the
> files from there. If you don't want to keep them, answer 0 to the
> next question.
>
>
>
> How big should the disk cache be for keeping the build directories
> with all the intermediate files?
>
> Cache size for build directory (in MB)? [10]
>
>
> By default, each time the CPAN module is started, cache scanning
> is performed to keep the cache size in sync. To prevent from this,
> disable the cache scanning with 'never'.
>
> Perform cache scanning (atstart or never)? [atstart]
>
>
> To considerably speed up the initial CPAN shell startup, it is
> possible to use Storable to create a cache of metadata. If Storable
> is not available, the normal index mechanism will be used.
>
> Cache metadata (yes/no)? [yes]
>
>
> The next option deals with the charset your terminal supports. In
> general CPAN is English speaking territory, thus the charset does not
> matter much, but some of the aliens out there who upload their
> software to CPAN bear names that are outside the ASCII range. If your
> terminal supports UTF-8, you say no to the next question, if it
> supports ISO-8859-1 (also known as LATIN1) then you say yes, and if it
> supports neither nor, your answer does not matter, you will not be
> able to read the names of some authors anyway. If you answer no, names
> will be output in UTF-8.
>
> Your terminal expects ISO-8859-1 (yes/no)? [yes]
>
>
> If you have one of the readline packages (Term::ReadLine::Perl,
> Term::ReadLine::Gnu, possibly others) installed, the interactive CPAN
> shell will have history support. The next two questions deal with the
> filename of the history file and with its size. If you do not want to
> set this variable, please hit SPACE RETURN to the following question.
>
> File to save your history? [/root/.cpan/histfile]
> Number of lines to save? [100]
>
>
> The CPAN module can detect when a module that which you are trying to
> build depends on prerequisites. If this happens, it can build the
> prerequisites for you automatically ('follow'), ask you for
> confirmation ('ask'), or just ignore them ('ignore'). Please set your
> policy to one of the three values.
>
> Policy on building prerequisites (follow, ask or ignore)? [ask]
>
>
> The CPAN module will need a few external programs to work properly.
> Please correct me, if I guess the wrong path for a program. Don't
> panic if you do not have some of them, just press ENTER for those. To
> disable the use of a download program, you can type a space followed
> by ENTER.
>
> Where is your gzip program? [/bin/gzip]
> Where is your tar program? [/bin/tar]
> Where is your unzip program? [/usr/bin/unzip]
> Where is your make program? [/usr/bin/make]
> Warning: lynx not found in PATH
> Where is your lynx program? []
> Where is your wget program? [/usr/bin/wget]
> Warning: ncftpget not found in PATH
> Where is your ncftpget program? [] /usr/bin/ncftpget
> Where is your ftp program? [/usr/bin/ftp]
> Where is your gpg program? [/usr/bin/gpg]
> What is your favorite pager program? [/usr/bin/less]
> What is your favorite shell? [/bin/bash]
>
>
> Every Makefile.PL is run by perl in a separate process. Likewise we
> run 'make' and 'make install' in processes. If you have any
> parameters (e.g. PREFIX, LIB, UNINST or the like) you want to pass
> to the calls, please specify them here.
>
> If you don't understand this question, just press ENTER.
>
> Parameters for the 'perl Makefile.PL' command?
> Typical frequently used settings:
>
>    PREFIX=~/perl       non-root users (please see manual for more hints)
>
> Your choice:  [INSTALLDIRS=site]
> Parameters for the 'make' command?
> Typical frequently used setting:
>
>    -j3              dual processor system
>
> Your choice:  []
> Parameters for the 'make install' command?
> Typical frequently used setting:
>
>    UNINST=1         to always uninstall potentially conflicting files
>
> Your choice:  []
>
>
> Sometimes you may wish to leave the processes run by CPAN alone
> without caring about them. As sometimes the Makefile.PL contains
> question you're expected to answer, you can set a timer that will
> kill a 'perl Makefile.PL' process after the specified time in seconds.
>
> If you set this value to 0, these processes will wait forever. This is
> the default and recommended setting.
>
> Timeout for inactivity during Makefile.PL? [0]
>
>
> If you're accessing the net via proxies, you can specify them in the
> CPAN configuration or via environment variables. The variable in
> the $CPAN::Config takes precedence.
>
> Your ftp_proxy?  172.22.0.66
> Your http_proxy? [http://proxy2.lnmiit.ac.in:3128/]
> Your no_proxy?  localhost,127.0.0.1,172.22.10.1
>
>
> If your proxy is an authenticating proxy, you can store your username
> permanently. If you do not want that, just press RETURN. You will then
> be asked for your username in every future session.
>
> Your proxy user id?  shriram
>
>
> Your password for the authenticating proxy can also be stored
> permanently on disk. If this violates your security policy, just press
> RETURN. You will then be asked for the password in every future
> session.
>
> CPAN: Term::ReadKey loaded ok
> Your proxy password?
>
> You have no /root/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY
>  I'm trying to fetch one
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
> Fetching with LWP:
>  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
> Fetching with LWP:
>  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz
> CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
>  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
> Fetching with Net::FTP
>  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz
>
> Trying with "/usr/bin/ncftpget" to get
>    ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
> sh: /usr/bin/ncftpget: not found
>
> Trying with "/usr/bin/ncftpget" to get
>  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz
> sh: /usr/bin/ncftpget: not found
>
> Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get
>    ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
> --12:30:16-- <ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY--12:30:16-->
> ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
>           => `-'
> Connecting to 172.22.0.66:80... connected.
> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 12:30:16 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>
>
> Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get
>  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz
> --12:30:16-- <ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz--12:30:16-->
> ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz
>           => `-'
> Connecting to 172.22.0.66:80... connected.
> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 12:30:16 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>
> Issuing "/usr/bin/ftp -n"
> ftp: connect to address 194.159.255.135: Connection timed out
> Trying 69.31.115.210...
> ftp: connect: Connection timed out
> Not connected.
> Local directory now /root/.cpan/sources
> Not connected.
> Not connected.
> Not connected.
> Not connected.
> Not connected.
> Bad luck... Still failed!
> Can't access URL ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.
>
> Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file () are valid.
> The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'
>
> Could not fetch MIRRORED.BY
> CPAN.pm needs at least one URL where it can fetch CPAN files from.
>
> Please enter your CPAN site: []
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
>
> --
> Shri Ram Pandey
> IKM Trainee
> NCSI,Indian Institute Of Science,Bangalore
> Official mail: shriram at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
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