CPAN mirrors

[sandro]

Hi all

iam trying to install cpan from the scratch_install document.
i have installed till country and continent after that it is prompting to select "select a few cpan mirrors" when i enter any number between 1 to 10 it is not accepting..
plse kindly tell me few cpan mirrors...

finally i have installed but it is not working when i am trying install in modules
cpan> install MD5
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz

gzip: /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz: not in gzip format
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz

gzip: /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz: not in gzip format
Warning: Your /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header.
Please check the validity of the index file by comparing it to more
than one CPAN mirror. I'll continue but problems seem likely to
happen.
Warning: Your /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Last-Updated header.
Please check the validity of the index file by comparing it to more
than one CPAN mirror. I'll continue but problems seem likely to
happen.
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz

gzip: /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz: not in gzip format
Can't locate object method "data" via package "CPAN::Modulelist" (perhaps you forgot to load "CPAN::Modulelist"?) at (eval 15) line 1.
at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 3406
CPAN::Index::rd_modlist('CPAN::Index', '/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 3129
CPAN::Index::reload('CPAN::Index') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 675
CPAN::exists('CPAN=HASH(0x8cf8450)', 'CPAN::Module', 'MD5') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 1842
CPAN::Shell::expandany('CPAN::Shell', 'MD5') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 2078
CPAN::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell', 'install', 'MD5') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 2165
CPAN::Shell::install('CPAN::Shell', 'MD5') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 201
eval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 201
CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1

giving this error, ithink there is problem in the cpan mirrors.....it is not allowing me to install any module..

kindly let me know if any body knows how to solve this issue.

Regards,
Sandro

[ramindia]

Hi

if you are situated in hyderabad(india)
using Airtel or any one bandwidth

select asia, and select singapore(13), select 3 for the mirror site

i do everyday i dont see any problem.

ram