On 12/8/05, hiep at ee.ucr.edu <hiep at ee.ucr.edu> wrote: > I have trouble install the following perl modules to my Centos 4.2 server > and I need help > > CPAN: Storable loaded ok > Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata > Warning: Found only 0 objects in /root/.cpan/Metadata > CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok > Fetching with LWP: > ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: Bad hostname > 'ftp.perl.org'] It looks like ftp.perl.org isn't getting resolved - looks like a DNS problem, possibly just a temporary problem. If it's not a DNS problem, you might want to try reconfiguring CPAN by running "o conf init" from the CPAN shell. However, a couple of the Perl modules you listed are part of the base CentOS distribution (run "yum install perl-Time-HiRes perl-HTML-Parser" to download and install them), and most of the rest are available in Dag's repository. If one or two of the modules aren't available as RPMs, you can download cpan2rpm (http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/) and easily package them. I personally prefer to use RPMs for as much as possible, rather than installing software using a non-RPM mechanism such as CPAN. It makes it easier to check version numbers (since version numbers are all in the RPM database) and update software (just run "yum update"), and it makes it easier to duplicate your setup on another computer (since you don't have to configure and run the CPAN module on multiple machines). Josh Kelley