From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

At 18​:16 -0800 2000-02-02, David Ranney wrote​:

I just downloaded Perl 5.005.03 and tried to install it.

Where from? You can find a good copy at http​://www.cpan.org. If you
did snag a bad copy from somewhere, please inform that archive's
manager.

While extracting
it I got the following error​:

perl-5.005.03/lib/locale.pm
tar​: Could not change access and modification times of
perl-5.005.03/lib/locale.pm​: No such file or directory

Hmmm. The structure of your disk may have been screwed up before you
started. Do whatever you have to to run fsck over it. (The mailer
you use suggests you're running something UNIXish.) Then remount it,
delete the perl5.005_03 source directory and try starting over.

--
Dominic Dunlop

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 06​:16​:14PM -0800, David Ranney wrote​:

Hi,

I just downloaded Perl 5.005.03 and tried to install it. While extracting
it I got the following error​:

perl-5.005.03/lib/locale.pm
tar​: Could not change access and modification times of perl-5.005.03/lib/locale.pm​: No such file or directory
tar​: Cannot chown file perl-5.005.03/lib/locale.pm to uid 0 gid 1​: No such file or directory
tar​: Cannot change mode of file perl-5.005.03/lib/locale.pm to 444​: No such file or directory

Although you don't tell us, I presume you are running on a Solaris
machine using a tar compiled for SunOS. You will probably find the file
as perl-5.005.03/lib/oldlocale.pm, so you can just rename it. Or use a
tar that has been compiled for Solaris.

--
Paul Johnson - pjcj@​transeda.com
http​://www.transeda.com/pjcj

From @doughera88

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, David Ranney wrote​:

perl-5.005.03/lib/locale.pm
tar​: Could not change access and modification times of perl-5.005.03/lib/locale.pm​: No such file or directory
tar​: Cannot chown file perl-5.005.03/lib/locale.pm to uid 0 gid 1​: No such file or directory
tar​: Cannot change mode of file perl-5.005.03/lib/locale.pm to 444​: No such file or directory

This shows that the file was indeed in the .tar.gz bundle but that it got
"lost" somewhere during extraction. You don't specify your platform, but
I believe this problem arises when you run a tar built under SunOS under
Solaris. Something about the compatibility library changes occurences of
"lib/locale" into "lib/oldlocale". I think.

Use a Solaris tar and all should be o.k.

  Andy Dougherty doughera@​lafayette.edu
  Dept. of Physics
  Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042