My cpan is very broken

Intrepid has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is it bit-rot? Does no one care? (Sorry, that's inappropriate).

I spent a lot of time getting all the important and optional dependencies for CPAN.pm installed this evening, including CPAN::SQLite, and its dependency, DBD::SQLite which I had to grab an older release of to get it to compile, but that's another adventure ...).

Now nothing will be recognized as a distribution, and before that state, I saw the following error:

EDIT:

This obviously an error from an instance of cpanplus, I am apparently tired and confused.

[ERROR] Dir '' does not exist

Key 'dir' () is of invalid type for 'CPANPLUS::Internals::Utils::_chdi
+r' provided by CPANPLUS::Module::Signature::check_signature at /usr/l
+ocal/share/perl/5.28.1/CPANPLUS/Module/Signature.pm line 61.
[ERROR] Dir '' does not exist

Key 'dir' () is of invalid type for 'CPANPLUS::Internals::Utils::_chdi
+r' provided by CPANPLUS::Dist::_resolve_prereqs at /usr/local/share/p
+erl/5.28.1/CPANPLUS/Dist.pm line 835.
Running [/usr/bin/perl -MCPANPLUS::Internals::Utils::Autoflush /root/.
+cpanplus/5.28.1/build/25tEDk2MKd/File-TreeBuilder-0.02/Makefile.PL]..
+.
[ERROR] Could not run '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL':  -- cannot continue

[ERROR] Dir '' does not exist

Key 'dir' () is of invalid type for 'CPANPLUS::Internals::Utils::_chdi
+r' provided by CPANPLUS::Dist::MM::prepare at /usr/local/share/perl/5
+.28.1/CPANPLUS/Dist/MM.pm line 441.
[ERROR] Could not chdir back to start dir ''
[ERROR] Unable to create a new distribution object for 'File::TreeBuil
+der' -- cannot continue
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The genuine cpan error

$ cpan install File::TreeBuilder
CPAN: Term::ANSIColor loaded ok (v4.06)
CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.220)
CPAN: YAML::Syck loaded ok (v1.34)
Reading 8 yaml files from /home/somian/.cpan/build/
DONE
Restored the state of none (in 0.0359 secs)
Database was generated on Sat, 21 Dec 2024 02:14:45 GMT
Could not expand [File::TreeBuilder]. Check the module name.
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I was working on a Debian system and I was hoping for ease and straightfowardness. Aaaaaugh. Back to using cpanplus

EDIT

~~(which is perfectly good)~~ which is also broken.

Versions info:
perl (v5.28.1), i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int
CPAN v1.64

Dec 21, 2024 at 03:49 UTC

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Re: My cpan is very broken by Arunbear (Prior) on Dec 21, 2024 at 13:52 UTC
Suggestion: try plenv - it makes it simple to install and use other Perls apart from the system Perl (this is generally much safer than tinkering with the system Perl). It is easy to install Once you've done that, you can use it to install cpan minus `plenv install-cpanm` [download] Then % cpanm File::TreeBuilder --> Working on File::TreeBuilder Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LU/LUCS/File-TreeBuilder-0.0 +2.tar.gz ... OK Configuring File-TreeBuilder-0.02 ... OK ==> Found dependencies: Test::Usage --> Working on Test::Usage Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LU/LUCS/Test-Usage-0.08.tar. +gz ... OK Configuring Test-Usage-0.08 ... OK ==> Found dependencies: IO::Capture::Stderr, File::Slurp, IO::Capture: +:Stdout --> Working on IO::Capture::Stderr Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RE/REYNOLDS/IO-Capture-0.05. +tar.gz ... OK Configuring IO-Capture-0.04 ... OK Building and testing IO-Capture-0.05 ... OK Successfully installed IO-Capture-0.05 --> Working on File::Slurp Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/C/CA/CAPOEIRAB/File-Slurp-9999 +.32.tar.gz ... OK Configuring File-Slurp-9999.32 ... OK Building and testing File-Slurp-9999.32 ... OK Successfully installed File-Slurp-9999.32 Building and testing Test-Usage-0.08 ... OK Successfully installed Test-Usage-0.08 Building and testing File-TreeBuilder-0.02 ... OK Successfully installed File-TreeBuilder-0.02 4 distributions installed [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: My cpan is very broken by soonix (Chancellor) on Dec 21, 2024 at 11:37 UTC
Quick (and possibly stupid) question: ist that your system Perl? I'm currently on RedmondOS, so my paths look completely different anyway, but `/usr/bin/perl` and `/usr/local/share/perl` might belong to the system Perl. So, do you use local::lib or App::perlbrew, or in which way do you separate "your" modules from your system's?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: My cpan is very broken by Intrepid (Curate) on Dec 21, 2024 at 20:38 UTC
Yes, it is the vendor-provided package-manager Perl for Debian "Buster" in /usr/bin/perl. On this system I am not using local::lib or perlbrew. Thanks for your reply. Dec 21, 2024 at 20:37 UTC A just machine to make big decisions Programmed by fellows (and gals) with compassion and vision We'll be clean when their work is done We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young Donald Fagen -> I.G.Y. (Slightly modified for inclusiveness)	[reply]