perl5.8 not fetching

[dalton@…]

Today, 8 Sept, I installed macports version 1.6.0 on my 10.5.4 Leopard Server system. I then tried to install wireshark but I get an error that it can't install perl5.8 so I tried "sudo port install perl5.8" and I get an error also. I then installed perl5.10 successfully but wireshark doesn't recognize it and still tries to install the 5.8 version. selfupdate shows I'm on the current db.

macpro:~ dalton$ sudo port install wireshark
Password:
--->  Fetching perl5.8
--->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/
--->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/perl5.8
--->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
--->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/perl5.8
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gtk2 shared-mime-info libxml2 autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext perl5.8 m4 libtool automake p5-xml-parser tiff libpcap openssl
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Actually I believe gtk2 requires perl5.8 and it's breaking trying to get 5.8.

[dalton@…]

I just created a macports userid so I could create this ticket. Please let me know what I should do next -- I really need to be able to review some packet captures pretty soon. Thanks very much Dalton Hamilton Cisco Systems SE 919.392.7320

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

perl5.8 fetches fine for me. I would suggest the following:

sudo port clean --all perl5.8
sudo port install wireshark

perl5.10 won't help for installing wireshark. You might as well uninstall it if you only want wireshark.

sudo port uninstall perl5.10

[dalton@…]

macpro:bin dalton$ sudo port uninstall perl5.10 Password: ---> Deactivating perl5.10 5.10.0_2 ---> Uninstalling perl5.10 5.10.0_2 macpro:bin dalton$ sudo port clean --all perl5.8 ---> Cleaning perl5.8 macpro:bin dalton$ sudo port install wireshark ---> Fetching perl5.8 ---> Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from ​http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/ ---> Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from ​http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/perl5.8 ---> Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from ​http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/ ---> Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from ​http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/perl5.8 Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gtk2 shared-mime-info libxml2 autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext perl5.8 m4 libtool automake p5-xml-parser tiff libpcap openssl Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. macpro:bin dalton$ }}}

This didn't work. Thanks very much for offering the advice. Anything else you can think of as to why this might be failing??? I'm willing to uninstall everything and start from scratch if needed.

Thanks

[dalton@…]

I figured out what the problem is. The WebProxy on the edge of the network was blocking the download. Thanks for taking the time to help.

Best Regard Dalton Hamilton

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Glad you got it working!