"Um checksum? Simply try again, likely an incomplete download"

I tried again: same result; still not proceeding:

Warning: checksum file '/home/ken/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JM/JMCNAM
+ARA/CHECKSUMS' not conforming.

The cksum does not contain the key 'cpan_path' for 'App-Pod2CpanHtml-0
+.04.tar.gz'.
Proceed nonetheless? [no]
Aborted.
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Delete all the local checksums and let cpan download them again.

rm /home/ken/.cpan/sources/authors/id/?/??/*/CHECKSUMS
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map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

G'day choroba,

I'm not seeing this checksum issue with other cpan installations; however, if the problem persists, I will consider your suggested fix. Having said that, it does sound a bit drastic. Is there a reason why you're suggesting deleting all checksums?

In this particular instance, I've decided not to pursue App::Pod2CpanHtml. It's 9 years since it was last updated. An issue (#121652) was raised 5 years ago; a patch was included; the Status is still "new". I'm considering this to be abandonware and unsuitable for my purposes.

— Ken

Whatt client? Mirror? Its https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/J/JM/JMCNAMARA/CHECKSUMS

 'App-Pod2CpanHtml-0.04.tar.gz' => {
    'cpan_path' => 'J/JM/JMCNAMARA',
    'md5' => '31833117fe8119a6853f4f27beeca165',
    'md5-ungz' => '125b1716bad30fb14481e2c8069df5e4',
    'mtime' => '2012-12-09',
    'sha256' => '5dd7ba47804fbe8169705308996a783fbce1e06bb866a534bf3f8
+96e0568d2b2',
    'sha256-ungz' => 'dcda33781cb523b446abca7fd064324080bc104b03fcf3bf
+8c252ac3aa9e69b6',
    'size' => 4267
  },
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