Comments on: Recursive Dependencies in CPAN

By: insane

insane — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:33:29 +0000

Thank you very much ‘wpns’, updating the date on my VirtualMachine did the trick and the installation of Bundle::CPAN worked fine.

By: Laufeyjarson

Laufeyjarson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:04:35 +0000

Sounds to me like you’ve got CPAN behaving better. What errors are you getting, or do you just get the summary?

By: japh_hopeful

japh_hopeful — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:39:27 +0000

Did the install CPAN, install Bundle::CPAN, install Catalyst … but get stuck on the testing:
Test Summary Report
——————-
t/aggregate/live_engine_request_body.t (Wstat: 256 Tests: 23 Failed: 1)
Failed test: 23
Non-zero exit status: 1
Files=115, Tests=2426, 158 wallclock secs ( 0.67 usr 0.40 sys + 147.32 cusr 6.91 csys = 155.30 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/115 test programs. 1/2426 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
FLORA/Catalyst-Runtime-5.80013.tar.gz
/usr/bin/make test — NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try:
reports FLORA/Catalyst-Runtime-5.80013.tar.gz
Running make install
make test had returned bad status, won’t install without force
Failed during this command:
FLORA/Catalyst-Runtime-5.80013.tar.gz : make_test NO

but I dont know what to do next.
Any suggestions?

By: wpns

wpns — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:57:58 +0000

I had this exact problem, and none of the solutions I could find seemed to make any difference. Careful inspection of the logs revealed that the date/time on my Linux box was significantly off, and since the timestamp on some files was more than (a megasecond?) in the future, the installation failed.

Correcting the time on my box solved the problem. Worth a check. Use the ‘date’ command to check and set the time.

By: ME

ME — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:29:55 +0000

CPAN sucks, it almost never works strait out of the box, never, ever, saw it work strait away on ubuntu….. CPAN doesn’t give real user friendly error’s nor can it be called user friendly when it worked fine before.

Just try installing the things you need by hand, or just give up, and go for bash, python, etc.

(sad)

Perl Rocks do ;D

Kind regards a perl monk

By: Laufeyjarson

Laufeyjarson — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:18:43 +0000

I discovered the same thing, that you couldn’t install any of the modules.

Tomas’ directions worked for me. Just upgrading CPAN, then doing the install of the whole CPAN bundle got me past the recursive dependency.

I’m sorry to hear it didn’t work well for you. Try asking on the mailing list and see if anyone has specific help for your platform, I guess.

By: Kerem ERSOY

Kerem ERSOY — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:24:12 +0000

You can’t install manually. When you try to manual install any of them you get the same error. Recursevie ependencey condition exists in each of them.

Furthermore install CPAN did not solve my problem : (

By: Laufeyjarson

Laufeyjarson — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:08:46 +0000

Yes, that has done it. That’s wonderful. I was going to try manually installing one (or more) of the modules with the loop in them to see if that would satisfy it.

Thanks again, Tomas!

Now, to try and install Catalyst!

By: Tomas Doran

Tomas Doran — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:40:55 +0000

Newer CPAN has fixed this. Install _just_ CPAN, then try to install Bundle::CPAN, and all will be well.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:12:58 +0000

Oops, I described it in 2, 1, 3 order.

Check the version first, do the manual install, then install the CPAN bundle.