thanks everyone, but i still can't install Pod::Usage because of depedency. Is there a way to includ all dependencies into cpan2rpm installation? This is what I tried: cpan2rpm -i http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BB/BBC/Pod-Usage-CGI-1.010.tar.gz thanks, JC On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Josh Kelley wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > --