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Hello,

I am trying to install CPAN Inline::Python, so I can use python code inside of my perl script. I am seeing the following error, and not sure what may be the problem. Any help will be appreciated.

I did the following, based on http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html

1. set http_proxy to mycorp proxy server 2. set ftp_proxy to mycorp proxy server. 3. cpan App::cpanminus
error is as below:

Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.wayne.edu/cpan/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to read /nfs/pdx/disks/nehalem.pde.252/hsw/tvpv/user_dir/sbharg2 +/perlcpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to write /nfs/pdx/disks/nehalem.pde.252/hsw/tvpv/user_dir/sbharg +2/perlcpan/Metadata Running install for module App::cpanminus Running make for M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.6915.tar.gz Fetching with LWP: file://ftp.uwsg.iu.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cp +anminus-1.6915.tar.gz LWP failed with code[404] message[File `//ftp.uwsg.iu.edu/pub/perl/CPA +N/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.6915.tar.gz' does not exis +t] Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.wayne.edu/cpan/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.69 +15.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok Fetching with LWP: file://ftp.uwsg.iu.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/CHECKS +UMS Fetching with LWP: file://ftp.uwsg.iu.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/CHECKS +UMS.gz Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.wayne.edu/cpan/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/CHECKSUMS Checksum for /nfs/pdx/disks/nehalem.pde.252/hsw/tvpv/user_dir/sbharg2/ +perlcpan/sources/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.6915.tar.gz + ok Scanning cache /nfs/pdx/disks/nehalem.pde.252/hsw/tvpv/user_dir/sbharg +2/perlcpan/build for sizes App-cpanminus-1.6915/ App-cpanminus-1.6915/bin/ App-cpanminus-1.6915/Changes App-cpanminus-1.6915/cpanfile App-cpanminus-1.6915/lib/ App-cpanminus-1.6915/LICENSE App-cpanminus-1.6915/Makefile.PL App-cpanminus-1.6915/MANIFEST App-cpanminus-1.6915/MANIFEST.SKIP App-cpanminus-1.6915/META.json App-cpanminus-1.6915/META.yml App-cpanminus-1.6915/README App-cpanminus-1.6915/t/ App-cpanminus-1.6915/t/happy_cpantesters.t App-cpanminus-1.6915/lib/App/ App-cpanminus-1.6915/lib/App/cpanminus.pm App-cpanminus-1.6915/bin/cpanm CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.6915.tar.gz ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.3 required--this is only version 6.17 at + Makefile.PL line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 7. Running make test Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't test Running make install Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't install