In nearly ten years of trying, I have never once succeeded at installing a CPANPLUS autobundle, nor CPAN before it. My wits' end appeared in the rearview quite some time ago, and now I hover over the abyss like the coyote waiting for gravity to notice him.

I can create a bundle just fine:

CPAN Terminal> b
[MSG] Checking if source files are up to date
[MSG] Retrieving /opt/ActivePerl-5.10/cpanplus/sourcefiles.2.18.stored
Wrote autobundle to '/opt/ActivePerl-5.10/cpanplus/5.10.0/dist/autobun
+dle/Snapshot_2008_08_13_02.pm

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However, every attempt to install the autobundle, using exactly the instruction recorded within that file, gives the same results: 
$ perl -MCPANPLUS -e "install Snapshot_2008_08_13_02"

[MSG] Checking if source files are up to date
[MSG] Retrieving /opt/ActivePerl-5.10/cpanplus/sourcefiles.2.18.stored
[ERROR] No such module 'Snapshot_2008_08_13_02'

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I have tried moving the Snapshot file into my CPANPLUS root directory, into the Bundle directory under that, and leaving it in 5.10.0/dist/autobundle. I have added the location of the file to -I in the perl command-line quoted above. I have made the autobundle destination my current directory. I have moved the Snapshot file into my module path.

I've lost track of how many variations I've tried. Clearly I've missed some vital piece of information, but I cannot find it in the mans, the pods, Perlmonks, CPAN, or Google. Can anyone tell me what that might be, or point me to a step-by-step example of installing a CPANPLUS autobundle?

Update: I tried to install the updated CPANPLUS, and was not able to get the dependencies to work. The Task module, however, has earned my This Week's Best Thing Since Sliced Bread award. I'm thinking of attempting a bundle2task adaptor. Thanks for the tip.

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In reply to Autobundles: CPANPLUS has made me its b***h by misterwhipple

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