I've submitted almost the same message under perl.beginners because I'm not sure where this fits better. I am pretty much a beginner with perl, especially with module installation. In the past cpan has just "done the right thing" for me, for which I have been grateful...
I was installing PDF::Create with cpan under cygwin and it "suggested" that I upgrade cpan by also installing Bundle::CPAN. I tried that and now I have a mess. Whenever I try to install a new module now, I get this error: CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/ vendor_perl/5.8/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm line 64. >From googling a bit, I think that the problem is that Bundle::CPAN tried to install Compress::Zlib and you can't install Compress::Zlib using cpan in cygwin. http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Compress/Compress-Zlib-1.21.readme The Compress::Zlib readme linked above says: > Win32 & Cygwin Notes > -------------------- > > It is not possible to install Compress::Zlib using the CPAN shell. > This is because the Compress::Zlib DLL is itself used by the CPAN shell > and it is impossible to remove a DLL while it is already loaded under > Windows. > > The workaround is to install Compress::Zlib manually using the > instructions given at the start of this file. --- but, I don't really know how to follow the manual instructions because I don't even know where perl modules are on my machine under the cygwin install. And... I'm not sure if I need to do something to get rid of the bad version first? Can someone handhold me through getting this fixed? Thanks in advance!
