in reply to Upgrade to Big Sur perl issue

This looks as if /Users/root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz is actually an HTML page and not a tar archive. What does the file look like if you look at it with a text editor?

Are you sure that cpan (and perl) can connect to the outside world?

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Re^2: Upgrade to Big Sur perl issue
by redsox43 (Novice) on Dec 03, 2020 at 13:54 UTC

    It does look like an html file. I thought that was kind of weird based on it's dot extensions.

    I can get to Cpan. Or at least I think I can. When I run the "recent" command from the terminal, I get an error from Safari that I need to download an rss app in order to download the file. Firefox had no problem, so I'm beginning to think my problem could be using the perl that came with the version of MacOS. I think I'm going to give perlbrew a shot

    Thanks for your help. It's much appreciated

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