CPAN won't work with Busybox gzip

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

Hello everyone,

I am on a Linux machine with Busybox where gzip is a symlinked command to Busybox, and not the full gzip utility. Perl-cpan fails to unpack CPAN modules saying:

Giving up parsing your /home/nemo/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.det
+ails.txt.gz, too many errors/usr/bin/gzip: invalid option -- 'q'
BusyBox v1.21.1 (2015-08-24 08:58:18 UTC) multi-call binary.

Usage: gzip [-cfd] [FILE]...

Compress FILEs (or stdin)

    -d    Decompress
    -c    Write to stdout
    -f    Force

/usr/bin/gzip: invalid option -- 'q'
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How can I solve this problem? How can I fix my cpan installation?

Best regards
imho

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Re: CPAN won't work with Busybox gzip by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 08, 2015 at 12:57 UTC
It's not really your CPAN installation but your incompatible `gzip` executable that you need to fix. Looking through CPAN::Tarzip (which handles reading from a .gz file for CPAN), there is the following line: `$success = 0==system(qq{$command -qdt "$read"});` [download] Maybe you can "fix" things by removing the "q" from that line. Alternatively, maybe you can simply decompress the `.gz` file manually and the need for `gzip` might be removed that way.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: CPAN won't work with Busybox gzip by imho (Initiate) on Oct 09, 2015 at 18:35 UTC
Hi, thank you very much for the hint. It works perfectly after removing the "q" from Tarzip. :-) Best regards imho	[reply]