You don't mention what platform you have... but judging from your paths, it must be a derivative of Unix.

Anyway, the problem appears to be in creating the makefile for CPAN.pm. Try doing the manual installation, when you get the necessary archives. You know: expand the archive, chdir to the main directory, type perl Makefile.PL, next make, make test, make install — only continuing on the next step if the previous step didn't barf. You can read the whole official checklist in perlfaq8, and likely in the README file of any module you may try to install.

I expect it to bust on perl Makefile.PL. Perhaps it may give you more detailed info on what is wrong.

If you get it to install, and the new CPAN still doesn't work right, feel free to come back.

p.s. Are you sure you have the required permission to install modules? It looks like you run CPAN as yourself, not as root, by the look of CPAN's home directory.

In reply to Re: CPAN crashes out by bart
in thread CPAN crashes out by irvken

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