I know next to nothing about perl, and would rather avoid getting too deep into it, but I have been trying to set up the bbs sytem provided by the scoop project.

I seem to be having a problem with the install process though, and it seems to be related to the updating of perl modules.

If I run 
bash%# perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install(CPAN::Shell->r)'

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I get 
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
  http://cpan.hambule.co.uk/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read y/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Could not pipe[  --decompress --stdout y/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.
+gz
|]: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 564
+2.

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and the scoop install crashes out with the same message. I've looked at the files but a CPAN.pm appears to be an unintelligible 7000 line script. or Shall I just give up?

update (broquaint): corrected formatting

In reply to CPAN problem ( I think) by irvken

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