That's what I did, but it didn't fix anything. I thought by removing the cpan directory it would then asks me the startup questions but it didn't.

I'm still confused...

Steve Hemond
Programmeur Analyste / Analyst Programmer
Smurfit-Stone, Ressources Forestières
La Tuque, P.Q.
Tel.: (819) 676-8100 X2833
[email]shemond@smurfit.com[/email]


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remko Lodder [mailto:remko@elvandar.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 3:15 PM
> To: Hemond, Steve; [email]beginners@perl.org[/email]
> Subject: RE: [Perl-beginners] How to reinstall CPAN?
>
>
> your config resides in ~/.cpan
> perhaps you can delete that directory, and reconfigure it?
>
> cheers
>
> --
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Remko Lodder
> Elvandar.org/DSINet.org
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>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: [email]perl-beginners-bounces@lists.elvandar.org[/email]
> [mailto:perl-beginners-bounces@lists.elvandar.org]Namens
> Hemond, Steve
> Verzonden: woensdag 4 februari 2004 20:37
> Aan: [email]beginners@perl.org[/email]
> Onderwerp: [Perl-beginners] How to reinstall CPAN?
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> For some reason, when running CPAN I get to many problems (I
> installed Perl v. 5.8.3 this morning, don't know if it has an effect)
>
>
> cpan> install HTML::Mason
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok
> LWP not available
> CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
> [url]ftp://cpan.chebucto.ns.ca/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz[/url]
> Going to read /usr/local/cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Can't exec "./gzip": No such file or directory at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.3/aix/IO/File.pm line 176, <FIN>
> line 1. Could not pipe[./gzip --decompress --stdout
> /usr/local/cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz |]: No such
> file or directory at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.3/CPAN.pm line
> 5727, <FIN> line 1.
>
> Is there any way I can reinstall CPAN from scratch?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve Hemond
> Programmeur Analyste / Analyst Programmer
> Smurfit-Stone, Ressources Forestieres
> La Tuque, P.Q.
> Tel.: (819) 676-8100 X2833
> [email]shemond@smurfit.com[/email]
>
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