从cpan镜像安装模块不起作用

Question

I am new to Perl so please bear with me.

I have tried to use minicpan on a Linux machine with no access to internet. I did this by creating a repository on a windows machine with internet successfully using minicpan -l C:/MINICPAN/ -r http://mirror.optusnet.com.au/CPAN , and then copying C:/MINICPAN/ to the Linux box ( /opt/perlLib/MINICPAN/ ).

The problem is, if I use cpanm --mirror file:///opt/perlLib/MINICPAN Net::SSH::Perl it just hangs.

If I use cpanm --mirror file:///opt/perlLib/MINICPAN -L /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/ Net::SSH::Perl I get the following but it just hangs after that:

==> Found dependencies: ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::Install

If I use cpanm --mirror file:///opt/perlLib/MINICPAN Net::SSH::Perl --mirror-only I get: Net::SSH::Perl is up to date. (1.36) Net::SSH::Perl is up to date. (1.36)

I am using v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

Is there an path issue that needs fixing? Is it a version problem (my windows box is using perl 5.18).

Any help/advice is appreciated.

Thank you

Answer 1

As per the cpanm documentation , you are correct to use --mirror-only ; it says: "Select this option if you are using a local mirror of CPAN, such as minicpan when you're offline". Without --mirror-only it presumably is hanging trying to connect to the internet.

With --mirror-only you are told that you have an up-to-date version of Net::SSH::Perl - are you sure that you don't have it installed? What happens if you try with --mirror-only and some other module?