Changing the default perl CPAN mirror
I'm fighting a problem with one of the websites transferred
from
one server to another not correctly uploading pictures.
After some extensive search I find the problem lays in a
missing
perl CPAN Image::Magick. The server where the website is
temporary
stored is an ancient Fedora Core 1, therefore installing that
peace
of CPAN wasn't an easy task. It seems the default soted mirror
for
CPAN modules is no longer hosting CPAN. To solve the issue, I
had
to change the default CPAN mirror. Following the suggestion
from
some online blogs in order to change the CPAN mirror I
issued:
# perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> o conf init
To select the proper mirror I used the ones stored in
CPAN mirror list
after that I issued commands:
# perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install "Image:Magick"
It was no strange the build failed considering the fact that fedora
is pretty much ancient.
Eventuall I've downloaded the
ImageMagick-perl-5.5.6-13.legacy.i386.rpm and manually installed
it:
rpm -ivh
ImageMagick-perl-5.5.6-13.legacy.i386.rpm
Done! Problem solved. Let's go on to the next server
challenge.