Hi, I am trying to get the cpan command line program functional but I am seeing an untar error
----------- # cpan install Bundle::CPAN CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:06:45 GMT Running install for module install Running make for J/JU/JUNOS/junoscript-perl-6.4I0.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JU/JUNOS/junoscript-perl-6.4I0.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes Uncompressed /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JU/JUNOS/junoscript-perl-6.4I0.tar.gz successfully Using Tar:/bin/tar xvf /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JU/JUNOS/junoscript-perl-6.4I0.tar: Couldn't untar /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JU/JUNOS/junoscript-perl-6.4I0.tar ----------- I can manually untar this file # /bin/tar xvf /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JU/JUNOS/junoscript-perl-6.4I0.tar # ls -l junoscript-perl-junoscript-perl-6.4I0 drwxr-xr-x 6 2298 705 4096 2004-08-25 21:40 junoscript-perl-6.4I0/ I don't know who the user 2298 or group 705 are. ------------ No matter what I try to install or how it seems to result in this same untar problem. I've tried perl -MCPAN -e "install 'Bundle::CPAN'" I've also tried installing different modules from CPAN. ----------- Some information about my system: # cat /etc/{debian_version,issue.net} 4.0 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 # cpan -v cpan script version 1.03 CPAN.pm version 1.7602 # tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.16 # which tar /bin/tar ----------- Here is my cpan configuration cpan> o conf CPAN::Config options from /etc/perl/CPAN/Config.pm: commit Commit changes to disk defaults Reload defaults from disk init Interactive setting of all options build_cache 10 build_dir /root/.cpan/build cache_metadata 1 cpan_home /root/.cpan cpan_version_check 1 dontload_hash ftp ftp_proxy getcwd cwd gpg /usr/bin/gpg gzip /bin/gzip histfile /root/.cpan/histfile histsize 100 http_proxy inactivity_timeout 0 index_expire 1 inhibit_startup_message 0 keep_source_where /root/.cpan/sources lynx make /usr/bin/make make_arg make_install_arg makepl_arg INSTALLDIRS=site ncftp ncftpget no_proxy pager /usr/bin/less prerequisites_policy ask scan_cache atstart shell /bin/bash tar /bin/tar term_is_latin 1 unzip urllist ftp://cpan.sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/CPAN/ ftp://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/CPAN/ wget /usr/bin/wget ----------- Help sorting this out is greatly appreciated. Thank you, Peter