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I suspect it is a change in one of the CPAN index files that occurred today that is causing your problems.

You could turn on verbosity, just to be sure

CPAN Terminal> s conf verbose 1

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If it is as I suspect, then upgrading to the fixed version of CPANPLUS (0.9136) I released today should solve the problem

C:\> lwp-mirror http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BI/BINGOS/CPANPLUS-0.
+9136.tar.gz CPANPLUS-0.9136.tar.gz
C:\> ptar zxf CPANPLUS-0.9136.tar.gz 
C:\> cd CPANPLUS-0.9136
C:\> perl bin/cpanp-boxed

CPAN Terminal> i CPANPLUS

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Re^2: CPANP (CPAN Plus) stopped working - help
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 28, 2013 at 05:40 UTC

    I released today should solve the problem

    might require a kick in the pants :)( cpanp -x --update_source )

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      bingos/AM: please review this session: I tried to update (x) and it issued an error:

      CPAN Terminal> s conf verbose 1

Key 'verbose' was set to '1'
CPAN Terminal> m Wx

CPAN Terminal> x --update_source

[MSG] Checking if source files are up to date
[MSG] Updating source file '01mailrc.txt.gz'
[MSG] Trying to get 'http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.t
+xt.gz'
[MSG] Updating source file '03modlist.data.gz'
[MSG] Trying to get 'http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/modules/03modlist.
+data.gz'
[MSG] Updating source file '02packages.details.txt.gz'
[MSG] Trying to get 'http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/modules/02packages
+.details.txt.gz'
[MSG] Rebuilding author tree, this might take a while
[MSG] Rebuilding module tree, this might take a while
[ERROR] Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at F:/Win7p
+rograms/Dwimperl/perl/lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Source.pm line 849.

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      Many TIA - Helen

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        I tried to update (x) and it issued an error:

        You forgot to download a new CPANPLUS first like bingos showed

        You could even  cpan CPANPLUS if your cpan is in working order

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Re^2: CPANP (CPAN Plus) stopped working - help
by HelenCr (Monk) on Apr 28, 2013 at 19:07 UTC
    bingos, khen1950fx and AM: I have installed 0.9136 according to your instructions - here is the tail of the installation:
    Read more... (2 kB)

    Looks ok, I think.
    I then ran cpanp, and it seems to be working fine.

    That was pressurizing. (sigh of relief).

    Thank you for you investment of time and energy - Helen

    By the way: can cpanp install a module from a PPM repository?

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      I'm glad everything worked out in the end.

      It can't do PPM installs sorry. You should have included with DWIM a ppm commandline utility that should be able to.

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