Re: NOT able to download DBD::Oracle using - cpan DBD::Oracle

Download it via Browser from cpan and follow the build readme. But build
will fail the Test if you did Not have the sample users active..,
Am 21.04.2012 19:52 schrieb "Malhotra Vivek (UK)" <[email protected]>:

> Can anybody please help why I am not able to download DBD::Oracle for
> Strawberry Perl on my Windows machine with Cpan command.
> Is it due to firewall.
>
> What other options can I try. Please help as I am working first time on
> Windows Perl. Below is the message which I get when I run the command from
> command prompt.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\vmalhot1>cpan DBD::Oracle
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.835)
> CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9721)
> Fetching with LWP:
> http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to
> cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (c
> onnect: timeout)]
> Warning: no success downloading
> 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt
> .gz.tmp5552'. Giving up on it.
> Warning: no success downloading
> 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt
> .gz.tmp5552'. Giving up on it.
>
> As a last resort we now switch to the external ftp command
> 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\
> ftp.EXE'
> to get 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp5552'.
> Doing so often leads to problems that are hard to diagnose.
> If you're the victim of such problems, please consider unsetting the
> ftp config variable with
>    o conf ftp ""
>    o conf commit
> Fetching with LWP:
> http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to
> cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (c
> onnect: timeout)]
> Warning: no success downloading
> 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt
> .gz.tmp5552'. Giving up on it.
> Warning: no success downloading
> 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt
> .gz.tmp5552'. Giving up on it.
> As a last resort we now switch to the external ftp command
> 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\
> ftp.EXE'
> to get 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp5552'.
> Doing so often leads to problems that are hard to diagnose.
> If you're the victim of such problems, please consider unsetting the
> ftp config variable with
>    o conf ftp ""
>    o conf commit
> CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.73)
> Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file
> (http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/) are valid. The urllist can be edited.
> E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'
> Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> C:\Documents and Settings\vmalhot1>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Vivek Malhotra
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