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I run debian 2.1 and perl 5.00404 as well, and have had no trouble running the cpan module in shell mode. If you want to post or send me (mlogan@ccs.neu.edu) your 'Config.pm' file under the CPAN module directory, I will take a look at it and see if it differs from mine significantly.

Good Luck,
-Mark

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RE: (3) difficulty using CPAN.pm (zlib incompatibility)
by ybiC (Prior) on Jul 26, 2000 at 23:16 UTC
    After it was all working, I made the mistake of following CPAN shell's suggestion of upgrading itself.   Any use of cpan.pm now results in a nasty zlibVersion error and rude return to host shell without closing the lock file.   :^(   CPAN.pm v1.54 apparantly requires Zlib 1.08, while Debian 2.1 provides Zlib 1.01.

    Upgrading Debian Zlib to v1.08 would also force an upgrade of 15 other .deb's, including apache, mailtools, and perl itself with all associated libs.   Needless to say, I'm not thrilled with that idea on a production host.

    Is there a cpan method for downgrading itself?

    Update: couple suggestions from young_perlhopper - install latest zlib (gzip?) to a non-default location, AND/OR rm cpan.pm and do a manual make/install.   Or, I may try copying CPAN.pm v1.202 from working Debian box at home.
        cheers,
        ybiC

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