Error installing Net::LDAP on Oracle Enterprise Linux

Question

I am trying to install the Net::LDAP module on an OEL box using CPAN, but I get the following error:

[root ~]# cpan -i Net::LDAP

CPAN: Storable loaded ok

Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Could not pipe[  --decompress --stdout /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz |]: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 5726.

Can someone please guide me on how to troubleshoot this?

forgot the mention technology - I am trying the above module installation in perl. — kavuru, Feb 06 '14 at 17:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '14 at 22:04

CPAN needs to be configured before you can use it to install stuff.

There should be a whole bunch of stuff under

/root/.cpan

Generally cpan gets this stuff automatically, but for some reason it's not there on your machine. In particular it needs this file.

/root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz

If that file is there, then cpan man be missing the gzip binary needed to uncompress that file.

Error installing Net::LDAP on Oracle Enterprise Linux

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