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Wow... just looking at the cp impressed me! But nuts.... I'm getting a lot of errors trying to install the modules. Tried to find some of the through CPAN.org and was having a tough time.... any ideas?



cpan> install DBI
Running make for T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.15.tar.gz
Unwrapped into directory yes/build/TIMB000

CPAN.pm: Going to build T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.15.tar.gz

Couldn't chdir yes/build/TIMB000: No such file or directory at (eval 26) line 42
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cpan>install Bundle::MySQL
Can't install Bundle::MySQL, don't have an associated bundle file. :-(
at (eval 26) line 1806



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cpan> install Text::Autoformat
cpan> install Date::Parse
cpan> install Email::Find
cpan> install URI::Find
cpan> install MIME::WordDecoder
cpan> install HTML::Entities

yields these errors:


Running make for D/DC/DCONWAY/Text-Autoformat-1.04.tar.gz
yes/sources/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/Text-Autoformat-1.04.tar.gz: No such file or
directory
Checksum mismatch for distribution file. Please investigate.

Distribution id = D/DC/DCONWAY/Text-Autoformat-1.04.tar.gz
CALLED_FOR Text::Autoformat
CONTAINSMODS Text::Autoformat
CPAN_USERID DCONWAY (Damian Conway <damian@conway.org>)
MD5_STATUS
localfile yes/sources/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/Text-Autoformat-1.04.tar.gz

I'd recommend removing
yes/sources/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/Text-Autoformat-1.04.tar.gz. It seems
to
be a bogus file. Maybe you have configured your `urllist' with a
bad URL. Please check this array with `o conf urllist', and
retry.

Fetching with LWP:
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/...NWAY/CHECKSUMS
yes/sources/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/Text-Autoformat-1.04.tar.gz: No such file or
directory
Checksum mismatch for distribution file. Please investigate.

Distribution id = D/DC/DCONWAY/Text-Autoformat-1.04.tar.gz
CALLED_FOR Text::Autoformat
CONTAINSMODS Text::Autoformat
CPAN_USERID DCONWAY (Damian Conway <damian@conway.org>)
MD5_STATUS
localfile yes/sources/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/Text-Autoformat-1.04.tar.gz

I'd recommend removing
yes/sources/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/Text-Autoformat-1.04.tar.gz. It seems
to
be a bogus file. Maybe you have configured your `urllist' with a
bad URL. Please check this array with `o conf urllist', and
retry.

sh: yes/sources/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/Text-Autoformat-1.04.tar.gz: No such fil
e or directory
Could not open >yes/build/DCONWAY000/Makefile.PL at (eval 26) line 4219

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I've never seen errors like that slinky
What version of Perl do you have and what platform?
You might have better luck installing them using the traditional method.

Not sure which version of perl but I went to CPAN to find the modules to install and not all of them are there. Here are the ones that are either not installed or that I couldn't find.

Bundle::mysql could be one of several different bundles.
Date::Parse isn't listed.
MIME:ecoder isn't listed
HTML::Entities isn't listed.

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Here's the links:

Bundle::mysql (part of the Msql-Mysql-modules bundle)
Date::Parse (part of the TimeDate bundle)
MIME:ecoder (part of the MIME-tools bundle
HTML::Entities (part of the HTML-Parser bundle)

There's a good chance that these particular four are already installed on your system. They are very common.

You're a saint... I booted it up and realize that MIME::WordDecoder isn't installed. After searching all over the place I found out that it is part of the MIME-tools package, FYI... I'm going to try to install them now...

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I see you're using the vBPortal Slinky. It looks good! I must have a closer look at that when I find time. That's a nice domain name too! No doubt you have plenty of offers for it

Originally posted by fastforward
I see you're using the vBPortal Slinky. It looks good! I must have a closer look at that when I find time. That's a nice domain name too! No doubt you have plenty of offers for it

Yes - the Portal is coming along very nicely. Testing for wajones and I've added in a few twists of my own! Now all I need to do is hire a designer just to design the overall site look. The domain name is a long story but it worked out really well for me... got it over 6 years ago, then was involved with the former mayor of New York, now I'm back in control... long story but great ride.

Almost there... some of the problems I've encountered could be that I'm using a virtual host and I've had to install the modules into another directory /usr/thelaw/perl/ which I created. The only error I'm getting now upon install and make are:

Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure, your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make'

Getting closer....

Originally posted by fastforward
Here's the links:

Bundle::mysql (part of the Msql-Mysql-modules bundle)
Date::Parse (part of the TimeDate bundle)
MIME:ecoder (part of the MIME-tools bundle
HTML::Entities (part of the HTML-Parser bundle)

There's a good chance that these particular four are already installed on your system. They are very common.

MMmm,
an scripts "that" check wich modules your need for this hack..!

no...yes...to much work

carrillo

Please Can Help Me ??

I found this error when i try use newnews.pl to import newsgroup into my forum but it so many error like this ..

DBD::mysql::db do failed: Duplicate entry 'from:' for key 2 [for statement ``SELECT wordid FROM word WHERE title = '??''']) at newnews.pl line 628.

Please Who can help me fix it ??? Thank you Very Much..

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I've seen a few other posts with similar errors (not related to this hack). I believe the advice given was to empty the word and searchindex tables and reindex. you could also try just deleting that particular record 'where title = '¡»'.

If you don't want to either of the above, you can simply turn off usenet post indexing for one batch run using the usenet control panel.