Installation

01Mailrc

01Mailrc

by Sean O'Neil -
Number of replies: 2
Hello, my name is Sean O'Neil and I'm trying to install webwork on my computer to play around with. When I ran the install script, everything was working fine up till the point where it's trying to reach a specific perl package from the following link but can never reach it. Heres what it shows
Trying with
/usr/bin/wget -O "/root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp10437"
to get
http://cpan.erlbaum.net/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
--2017-11-04 14:19:57-- http://cpan.erlbaum.net/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Resolving cpan.erlbaum.net (cpan.erlbaum.net)... 204.232.142.177
Connecting to cpan.erlbaum.net (cpan.erlbaum.net)|204.232.142.177|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.
it would try to reconnect but be stuck in a loop. I have cpanm and try to run the following:

It installs correctly but, retrying the installer again, keeps me in the loop. Any other perl package I can try or is that repository from the first link not working. I'm running an ubuntu 17.04 virtual machine.
In reply to Sean O'Neil

Re: 01Mailrc

by Arnold Pizer -
Hi,

I believe the install script may be a bit out of date. At the bottom of the section http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Installation_Manual_for_2.13_on_Ubuntu_16.04#Ubuntu_Software_Packages
you could copy and run (as root) the whole apt-get install command and it will install everything that may be missing and leave alone everything that is already installed and up to date.

Arnie

In reply to Arnold Pizer

Re: 01Mailrc

by Michael Gage -
It seems like the site it is trying to reach in order to download the CPAN package is no longer working. The url may need to be changed in the install script. I haven't looked at the script itself.