[Slashcode-general] CPAN and Slash

[Nathan T. <nt...@ha...>]

This may not be the most proper venue for a CPAN question, but I've spent 
two weeks exhaustively trying to get Slash to install, and failing because 
of a CPAN configuration problem.  I have a fresh Redhat 7.1 install with 
MySQL and Apache 1.3.20 (with mod_perl 1.26) supposedly up and 
running.  When I attempt to use CPAN to configure Slash (perl -MCPAN -e 
shell), and CPAN goes through its initial configuration, and attempts to 
"make test" it always fails upon the "t/require" failing tests 8-9.  It 
passes ftp and hostname, and skips NNTP and SMTP on this platform.  I have 
the latest version of CPAN (1.59), which also updated my perl libraries, 
and libnet 1.0704.  I'm attempting to install Slash 2.0.0.  If you have any 
ideas why the above test is failing, please respond, for otherwise my team 
is going to force me to setup a IIS/Access solution for a messageboard.

Thanks,
Nathan Thaler