Yes, I've been caught like this before. The junoscript-perl package (probably mistakenly) contains a module called install, so when you mistakenly supply the 'install' command on the cpan command line it tries to install that whole package. You don't need to do that a simple: 

cpan XML::Parser

[download]
Will suffice.

If you are sufficiently annoyed by this you might want to submit a bug report to either the author of junoscript to rename the module called install, or to the maintainer of CPAN, or the maintainer of the PAUSE indexer. All three are conspiring to cause this in a horrible coincidence.

/J\

In reply to Re: Trouble installing XML::Parser by gellyfish
in thread Trouble installing XML::Parser by apprentice

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