Installation problem

martin.mrazek_at_gmail.com
Date: 03/27/05

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    Date: 27 Mar 2005 04:32:01 -0800

    Hello,

    when installing the followin modulue from CPAN under MDK Linux I
    receive the error message (in the end of STDERR output) which I don't
    understand. Can you tell me what's wrong there? Shall I follow the
    message and install it with force?

    Regards
    Martin

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    cpan> install Number::Format
    CPAN: Storable loaded ok
    Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
      Database was generated on Sun, 06 Mar 2005 10:39:33 GMT
    CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
    Fetching with LWP:
      ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
    LWP failed with code[500] message[Login Timeout (30 seconds): closing
    control connection.
    ]
    Fetching with Net::FTP:
      ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
    Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
    CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
    Fetching with LWP:
      ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
    Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
      Database was generated on Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:01:08 GMT
    Fetching with LWP:
      ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
    LWP failed with code[500] message[Login Timeout (30 seconds): closing
    control connection.
    ]
    Fetching with Net::FTP:
      ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
    Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
    Going to write /root/.cpan/Metadata
    Running install for module Number::Format
    Running make for W/WR/WRW/Number-Format-1.45.tar.gz
    CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
    Checksum for
    /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/W/WR/WRW/Number-Format-1.45.tar.gz ok
    Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes
    Number-Format-1.45/
    Number-Format-1.45/README
    Number-Format-1.45/Format.pm
    Number-Format-1.45/MANIFEST
    Number-Format-1.45/CHANGES
    Number-Format-1.45/t/
    Number-Format-1.45/t/format_negative.t
    Number-Format-1.45/t/format_picture.t
    Number-Format-1.45/t/format_number.t
    Number-Format-1.45/t/locale.t
    Number-Format-1.45/t/format_price.t
    Number-Format-1.45/t/unformat_number.t
    Number-Format-1.45/t/round.t
    Number-Format-1.45/t/format_bytes.t
    Number-Format-1.45/t/object.t
    Number-Format-1.45/Makefile.PL
    Number-Format-1.45/TODO
    Removing previously used /root/.cpan/build/Number-Format-1.45

      CPAN.pm: Going to build W/WR/WRW/Number-Format-1.45.tar.gz

    Checking if your kit is complete...
    Looks good
    Writing Makefile for Number::Format
    cp Format.pm blib/lib/Number/Format.pm
    Manifying blib/man3/Number::Format.3pm
      /usr/bin/make -- OK
    Running make test
    PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl5.8.5 "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
    "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
    t/format_bytes.......ok
    t/format_negative....ok
    t/format_number......FAILED tests 2-5
            Failed 4/9 tests, 55.56% okay
    t/format_picture.....FAILED tests 2, 8-11
            Failed 5/13 tests, 61.54% okay
    t/format_price.......FAILED tests 2-6
            Failed 5/6 tests, 16.67% okay
    t/locale.............ok
    t/object.............ok
    t/round..............ok
    t/unformat_number....ok
    Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    t/format_number.t 9 4 44.44% 2-5
    t/format_picture.t 13 5 38.46% 2 8-11
    t/format_price.t 6 5 83.33% 2-6
    Failed 3/9 test scripts, 66.67% okay. 14/64 subtests failed, 78.12%
    okay.
    make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
      /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
    Running make install
      make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

    cpan>
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