Re: What Just Happened to my CPAN Shell?

How are you running cpan? perl -MCPAN? A script named cpan? In either case, which perl is it actually using, and did that somehow change?

Does /usr/share/perl/5.8 actually exist (it's probably a symlink to /usr/share/perl/5.8.8), and if so, does it contain Exporter.pm?

What modules did you recently install? (You can check perldoc perllocal to see.)

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Re^2: What Just Happened to my CPAN Shell? by rjray (Chaplain) on Jan 30, 2008 at 06:32 UTC
Interestingly, installing `Data::Dump::Streamer` from its build directory (i.e., outside of the CPAN shell) worked fine, and installing other modules works fine as well. It would seem that there is/was something in the `Makefile.PL` for that module that interfered with CPAN... `--rjray`	[reply]
Re^2: What Just Happened to my CPAN Shell? by rjray (Chaplain) on Jan 30, 2008 at 06:23 UTC
No, this is just the stock `perl` in Ubuntu. I'm calling `cpan` using the simple shell front-end that it installs. And you're correct that `/usr/share/perl/5.8` is a symlink to `/usr/share/perl/5.8.8`. The last set of modules I'd installed in the run prior to this were AnyEvent, Config::Any, Module::CPANTS::Analyse, Module::ScanDeps and Safe. I think I'll try to roll back the Module::ScanDeps change, since that's the only one I can think of that would interfere with CPAN. `--rjray`	[reply]