-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Uwe Dippel wrote: > [You find this repeatedly in the archive] > > Since I had this throughout the versions, including 3.8, I looked into > this a bit deeper: > cpan -MCPAN -e shell > and everything subsequent bombs out with a checksum mismatch. [...] > A shortcut to this: you install p5-Compress-Zlib from the ports or > packages, and cpan will use this as its native application early on. > (Which explains why some have never experienced this problem: all those > who had it installed from ports or packages before attempting cpan).
Another "workaround" that worked for me: "install gtar and tell cpan to use it". /m iD8DBQFDps1B8BX/d8pVi/cRAraEAKCgPl53XHtaj9KkG2ThAyYv2Bjd5ACfQkh7 sXqOAwKbeBp4qJbvO0Q1dE0= =igDA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----