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Did you look at "/usr/local­/share/per­l/5.8.8/CP­AN.pm line 10254", because the CPAN.pm that comes with Perl 5.8.8 doesn't have near that many lines (as shipped). Line 281 of that same file doesn't seem to match so you've probably upgraded CPAN.pm and should tell us what version you are using (as well as look at it).

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Re^2: What Just Happened to my CPAN Shell? (source?)
by rjray (Chaplain) on Jan 31, 2008 at 00:52 UTC

    I didn't look up the code itself, because I was hoping someone else might have seen the same thing (which it looks like they have, from an earlier comment). The CPAN is version 1.9205.

    --rjray

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      I get the same error:
      Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method main::version::(""() is depre
+cated at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 10254.
Catching error: 'Can\'t locate auto/main/version/("".al in @INC (@INC 
+contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5
+.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/per
+l/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /disk2/apache-2.0.59/conf) at /usr/loc
+al/share/perl/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 10254
' at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 281
        CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1

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      I just upgraded a bunch of modules on a box being prepared for production use. CPAN.pm is now 1.9205, and ExtUtils::MakeMaker is now 6.42 (both were upgraded, and one or both is contributing to the problem).

      Using the CPAN shell, I can list the modules needing upgrading, and then upgrade one module. Any subsequent upgrades or lists of upgrades fail with the above error. If I exit the shell and restart it, I can perform the next upgrade. Installation of modules seems to be okay, until an upgrade takes place, and then installation fails too.
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        I also just upgraded/added a bunch of modules using CPAN (1.9205). I get similar errors, but have been able to fix one of them by installing an older version of Parse::RecDescent: 
        cpan[12]> m Parse::RecDescent
Catching error: 'Can\'t locate auto/main/version/("".al in @INC (@INC
contains: /opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8/sun4-solaris
/opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8
/opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/sun4-solaris
/opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.8 /opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/site
+_perl
/opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8) at /opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8/CPAN
+.pm
line 10254
' at /opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 281
        CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1

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        Now this works. 
        cpan[13]> m Parse::RecDescent
Module id = Parse::RecDescent
    DESCRIPTION  Recursive descent parser generator
    CPAN_USERID  DCONWAY (Damian Conway <damian@conway.org>)
    CPAN_VERSION 1.94
    CPAN_FILE    D/DC/DCONWAY/Parse-RecDescent-1.94.tar.gz
    UPLOAD_DATE  2003-04-09
    DSLIP_STATUS MdpO? (mature,developer,perl,object-oriented,)
    MANPAGE      Parse::RecDescent - Generate Recursive-Descent Parser
+s
    INST_FILE    
/opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/Parse/RecDescent.pm
    INST_VERSION 1.94

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        I was tipped to this when building Module::ExtractUse (0.22): 
        Fri Feb  1 11:14:15 MST 2008
/opt/local/src/Module-ExtractUse-0.22
/opt/perl/bin:/opt/cooltools-4.0.4/gcc/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:
+/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin
/opt/perl/bin/perl
# running Build.PL 
/opt/perl/perl-5.8.8/bin/perl Build.PL
 - ERROR: Parse::RecDescent (1.95.1) is installed, but we need version
+ >= 1.94

ERRORS/WARNINGS FOUND IN PREREQUISITES.  You may wish to install the v
+ersions
of the modules indicated above before proceeding with this installatio
+n

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        This hasn't completely fixed the problem, but I'm getting fewer errors.
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