Net/Ftp

Net::FTP is a module, which comes with libnet.zip from CPAN.org's ftp site.
It is not a bundled module so you will not have it be default.

I don't find libnet.zip at cpan.org, nor can I find ftp in net/ at the site.  Can you give more detail on where to download?

I don't find libnet.zip at cpan.org, nor can I find ftp in net/ at the site.  Can you give more detail on where to download?

I installed libnet.pm according to the instrutions. But still have the same error.  I put libnet.pm in perl/lib/  Anything wrong?

Probably you do not have Net/FTP.pm in one of the directories specified in INC:
  C:/Program Files/Perl/lib
  or C:/Program Files/Perl/site/lib
  or .  (the current directory)

I don't know if the 'libnet' includes it, but if it does, it was not installed correctly.

bertvermerbergen
I thinkyou are right.  libnet doesn't include ftp.pm. I was able to download tftp.pm and installed correctly. I just can't find ftp.pm any where on CPAN.org site.
Any suggestion?

According to the documentation on the  libnet bundle, the ftp module should be ârt of it.  I suppose you did not have a full libnet distribution installed.  When you say: 'I installed libnet.pm according to the instrutions' does this mean you only installed a single module file ?  The libnet bundle contains many files to be installed.

Anyway, you can find a correct libnet distribution at:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Net/libnet-1.0703.tar.gz

Get this and install it following the guidelines in the Readme file in the distribution.  This should install all you need to ftp away.

By re-reading this, I saw you are running the ActiveState (Windows) version.  Here is a simpler way to get the package installed using PPM:

First get connected to the internet.
Then, in a command line window type:
    C:> ppm
This would run the ppm program from ActiveState.  It allows you to install packages without any need to compile anything.  Just type:
    PPM> search libnet
Following message appears (it does in my case):
    Packages available from http://www.ActiveState.com/packages:
            libnet
To install, just type:
    PPM> install libnet
and all the work will be done, just be patient for a while.

There is also a command
    PPM> help
that explains what ppm can do, if you are interested.

Hope this works for you.

Thanks. After installation, I tried compiling my perl script again and seems passed the original error.  But now point to a config error of ftp -

syntax error at C:/Program Files/Perl/site/lib/Net/Config.pm line 86, near "&gt"

Compilation failed in require at C:/Program Files/Perl/site/lib/Net/FTP.pm line
21.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Program Files/Perl/site/lib/Net/FTP.pm l
ine 21.
Compilation failed in require at ftpperl.pl line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ftpperl.pl line 2.


I checked config.pm line 86, it's the config info -
DATA&gt%NetConfig = (
      ftp_int_passive => '0',
      snpp_hosts => [],
      inet_domain => undef,
      test_exist => '1',
      daytime_hosts => [],
      ph_hosts => [],
      time_hosts => [],
      smtp_hosts => ['mail.mdo.net'],
      ftp_ext_passive => '0',
      ftp_firewall => undef,
      test_hosts => '0',
      nntp_hosts => ['news.gt.ca'],
      pop3_hosts => ['mail.mdo.net'],
);

There should be no "DATA&gt%" on that line

it should be just

%NetConfig = (