Philip Potter wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm having trouble installing stuff on CPAN. I'm using the cpan script: > cpan script version 1.03 > CPAN.pm version 1.7602 > > It tells me there's a new CPAN.pm available, so I type install > Bundle::CPAN. After a lot of text, including some requests for > dependencies, I get: > > Recursive dependency detected: > Bundle::CPAN > => Test::Harness > => A/AN/ANDYA/Test-Harness-3.17.tar.gz > => File::Spec > => S/SM/SMUELLER/PathTools-3.30.tar.gz > => Scalar::Util > => G/GB/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.21.tar.gz > => Test::More > => M/MS/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.92.tar.gz > => Test::Harness. > Cannot continue. > > What do I do now? How do I update CPAN?
>From what I've read, this is an issue that affects CentOS/RedHat, which
apparently ship with a faulty shell.
In fact, I performed the install via the CPAN shell on FreeBSD 7.2
successfully just now as a test ("install Bundle::CPAN").
Perhaps you could try:
% perl -MCPAN -e shell
% cpan> install CPAN
% cpan> o conf commit
Be advised that even though that seemed to work ok on a test box, I
don't know the complete ramifications.
Steve
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