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Argh

I've been trying to install some stuff today, without much luck. First, I had to figure out how to make the CPAN module install for a non-root user. The cretins hid the information in the most ridiculous place -- the documentation!

This is probably a good point to mention that I despise Perl. Hate it. All you have to do is say,"Perl," to me, and I'll start foaming, so I'm definitely predisposed and biased against it. I'm aware this isn't going to help me.

So, I modify my local config, and try to use the CPAN module. I start that bad boy up, and enter "i /spam/", to look up any modules, etc., with "spam" in the name.

Trying with "/usr/local/bin/lynx -source" to get ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz

CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok

Error reading from /home/reeses/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt:

Bang! No good!

So, after a bit of Googling, I learn about CPAN::Nox, which avoids pre-compiled stuff in case you're mangled your binary platform. I finally learned, and tested by hand, that lynx on DeadRat is so helpful, it will un-gzip .gz files for you. Now, when you try to gunzip a non-gz file, it throws an error...

Sound suspicious? :-)

(I'm bothering to put this here so Google will pick it up and perhaps some other sod won't have to go through the pain of tracking this information down.)

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