Ok, I have an issue and I am not sure what is causing it. I am working on a Fedora Core 7 Linux machine (my laptop). I have not had any problems with installing modules via CPAN up till now, and everything that I have installed has installed just fine since I initially configured the interface during its first run.

Yesterday I tried to run the command line to install a module (CGI) and it failed. So, I tried again, only with the Bundle::CPAN module(which I had done a few weeks ago just fine), and that bombed as well.

Here is what I am getting whenever I try to install any module:

$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /home/jlk/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:36:44 GMT
Going to read /home/jlk/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Going to read /home/jlk/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.g
+z
Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::gzopen called at /usr/lib/perl5/
+5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 5721.

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Again, I have not made any changes to my installation recently. The only things that could be considered changes to my machine would be updates and I have not seen anything even remotely Perl related coming down for update.

Any assistance with this is greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

Jeff

"Every time Linux boots, a penguin gets its wings"

In reply to Need help with CPAN gone awry by jlk

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