On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Joe Echavarria wrote:
I am getting this error while trying to configure MCPAN, the error is as follow :
Sorry for the confusion, it's not "MCPAN". Rather, "-M" is a command line argument for perl that says to use the "m"odule you're about to name. In this case, it's equivalent to a "use CPAN" statement.
Trying with "/usr/sfw/bin/ncftpget" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY ftp.perl.org: unknown host. ncftpget: cannot open ftp.perl.org: unknown host.
Can you ping this host? Can you FTP to it?
It sounds like this machine is either unconnected from the Internet or maybe it doesn't have working DNS or something.
In any case, it sounds like a general network failure that is happening deeper down in the system than Perl / CPAN.pm is working at. You need to figure out what is up with this machine's network connection, and make sure that you can interact with remote FTP servers, before you'll be able to get anywhere with the CPAN shell.
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