Question

when i run the script

perl DBCacheContrib? _installer.pl

i get the following...

Checking dependency on Time::ParseDate.... * DBCacheContrib? depends on cpan package Time::ParseDate >=2003.0211 which is described as "Required. Available from [[http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/ Time-modules][CPAN]]." But when I tried to find it I got this error:

Can't locate Time/ParseDate.pm

This module is available from the CPAN archive (http://www.cpan.org). You can download and install it from here. The module will be installed to wherever you configured CPAN to install to.

Would you like me to try to download and install the latest version of Time::Par seDate from cpan.org? [y/n] y CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read C:\Perl\cpan\Metadata Warning: Found only 0 objects in C:\Perl\cpan\Metadata Fetching with LWP: http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to ppm.activestate.com:80 (conne ct: Unknown error)] Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.perl.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to cpan.perl.org:80 (connect: Un known error)] No external ftp command available

Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file (http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN, http://cpan.perl.org) are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Fetching with LWP: http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to ppm.activestate.com:80 (conne ct: Unknown error)] Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.perl.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to cpan.perl.org:80 (connect: Un known error)]=

I have configured the perl DBCacheContrib? _installer.pl to have $lwp->proxy(['http', 'ftp'], 'http://proxy:8088/');

but i still get the above errors.. any help much appricated.

Environment

-- JasonOKeeffe - 03 Mar 2007

Answer

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best solution is to manually install Time::ParseDate using the commands:

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Time::ParseDate

You don't say whether you are running ActiveState? perl or not; if you are, there may be some other route you have to follow to install this module.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 03 Mar 2007

got it working i had to add a system variable for the proxy to windows xp

-- JasonOKeeffe - 03 Mar 2007

I'm having this same issue... what did you name this system variable in XP?

-- EricScott - 08 Jun 2007