My cpan install has broken, perhaps because of some recent upgrade, or perhaps because I killed it in the middle of an operation when I realized I had typed the wrong parameters. 

Catching error: "Can't locate object method \"requirements_for_module\
+" via package \"CPAN::Meta::Requirements\" at /usr/share/perl5/CPAN/D
+istribution.pm line 2802.\cJ" at /usr/share/perl5/CPAN.pm line 392.
        CPAN::shell() called at /usr/share/perl5/App/Cpan.pm line 339
        App::Cpan::_process_options("App::Cpan") called at /usr/share/
+perl5/App/Cpan.pm line 422
        App::Cpan::run("App::Cpan") called at /bin/cpan line 12

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This message is the same regardless of the operation. If I try an install whatever and then force install whatever I get told "whatever" has already been unwrapped into a directory; make in the cpan shell fails with the same error, but I can enter the directory manually and run perl Makefile.PL, make, etc.

cpan --version is 1.61 under perl 5.18.2.

In reply to Broken cpan by halfcountplus

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