What am I doing wrong?
Without wanting to be obnoxious, a number of things. You're not telling us:
- What version of Perl? (perl -V (uppercase V)
- What version of CPAN.pm (it's printed when it starts up)
- What operating system? (uname -a if on Unix)
- Do you have enough free RAM and disk space?
- What has changed on your system and with Perl since the last time you successfully installed a module?
You could run CPAN under the debugger and find out whereabouts the segfault is occurring: this should be enough for people to figure out what's going wrong.
perl -MCPAN -d -e 'install Statistics::ChiSquare'
The above will be enough to get the ball rolling. Use the n command to execute the code step by step and find out where it's failing and report back.
In other words, I have no idea why it would do that. I have had similar experiences with 5.6.0 on Solaris, but that version of Perl was known to be buggy.
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