Your post gives very little information to go on.

One possibility, however minor, is that the tarball you want to download is actually corrupt, even over there on CPAN.

Another blind guess is that your browser has decompressed the gzip compression (browsers have builtin support for it); and tar pads its metadata with blanks. But there should still be data inside the file, and if you rename it to just .tar you can still extract the files.

Or there might be an issue with your network connection; maybe there’s a too-clever-by-half proxy somewhere in there, possibly a transparent one; or who knows what. Try downloading from a different CPAN mirror.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: TAR.GZ files that are filled with blanks(spaces) in CPAN module archive by Aristotle
in thread TAR.GZ files filled with blank spaces (chr 32) in CPAN module archive by banditu

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