[ic] CPAN problems

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On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:29:38PM -0500, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> I'm just trying to install IC 4.8.3 and am finding that although the install 
> supposedly completes, it spits out loads of errors in the CPAN stage and 
> hence the server doesn't actually start up successfully.
> 
> Here's the error messages:
> 
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
> Fetching with LWP:
>   ftp://cpan.teleglobe.net/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
> Can't locate object method "data" via package "CPAN::Modulelist" at (eval 
> 211) line 1.
>         CPAN::Index::rd_modlist('CPAN::Index', 
> '/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz') called at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/CPAN.pm line 2586
> - 8<--- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--

see if you really can unzip that modlist.  Can't local method usually
means the object was not created.

You'd be better off with newer perl if you can upgrade.
> 
> The files that it is requesting exist at that location, but I changed the 
> server via the CPAN console just to be sure.  I've also tried deleting 
> everything under /root/.cpan/sources/ but to no avail.  The installers advice 
> of "try it again" doesn't seem very effective this time!
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jon
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