can't install URI from CPAN

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

Hi Monks,

there were no problems installing f.i. Image::Size directly form CPAN

# perl -MCPAN -e 'install Image::Size'
Going to read /home/tos/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
... (and so on) ...
  /usr/bin/make install  -- OK
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but with URI, i also tried "bundle", i only get

# perl -MCPAN -e 'install URI'
Can't locate object method "install" via package "URI" (perhaps you fo
+rgot to load "URI"?) at -e line 1.
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What i'm doing wrong ?

thanks in advance, tos

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Re: can't install URI from CPAN by Tomte (Priest) on Jul 04, 2003 at 13:45 UTC
'install URI' collides with one form to call a method in perl, what happens here, shows '-MO=Deparse' (Thanks and ++ to jeffa for pointing this out in the undef var thread, a new tool in my ever growing perl-box): `~> perl -MO=Deparse -MCPAN -e "install URI::URL" use CPAN; 'URI::URL'->install; -e syntax OK` [download] and, as is often the case, a unary `+` corrects the compilers perspective: `~> perl -MO=Deparse -MCPAN -e "install +URI::URL" use CPAN; install('URI::URL'); -e syntax OK` [download] regards, tomte Hlade's Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they will find an easier way to do it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: can't install URI from CPAN by gjb (Vicar) on Jul 04, 2003 at 11:43 UTC
I'm not really sure what happens, but quoting URI solves the problem: `perl -MCPAN -e 'install "URI"'` [download] Hope this helps, -gjb-	[reply] [d/l]