I am running standard install of RH 8.0 with perl v5.8.0. I am trying to update CPAN.pm and I am getting the following error; 
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
Going to read /export/home/satyr/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read /export/home/satyr/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.deta
+ils.txt.gz
  Database was generated on Fri, 01 Nov 2002 03:22:29 GMT

  There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.63) available!
  [Current version is v1.61]
  You might want to try
    install Bundle::CPAN
    reload cpan
  without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrad
+e
  while we are running...

Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://cpan.cse.msu.edu/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Can't locate object method "new" via package "HTTP::Request" at /usr/l
+ib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/HTTP/Request.pm line 62.

cpan>

[download]
Anyone seen this? Know how to fix it?

I haven't really used CPAN much and have been hunting around the FAQs but haven't found anything that addresses this specifically. I appreciate everyone's time

Thanks,
Michael

Edit by dws to add tags

In reply to lwp HTTP::Request question by satyrx

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