CPAN Install Problem (install Bundle::LWP)

awohld has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm installing LWP via CPAN. What do you guys think the source of this error is? I've tried doing install Bundle::CPAN but that errors out just the same.

cpan> install Bundle::LWP
Going to read /home/user/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read /home/user/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.
+gz
Warning: Your /home/user/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.
+gz does not contain a Line-Count header.
Please check the validity of the index file by comparing it to more
than one CPAN mirror. I'll continue but problems seem likely to
happen.
Warning: Your /home/user/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.
+gz does not contain a Last-Updated header.
Please check the validity of the index file by comparing it to more
than one CPAN mirror. I'll continue but problems seem likely to
happen.
Going to read /home/user/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Can't locate object method "data" via package "CPAN::Modulelist" (perh
+aps you forgot to load "CPAN::Modulelist"?) at (eval 15) line 1.
 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 3406
        CPAN::Index::rd_modlist('CPAN::Index', '/home/user/.cpan/sourc
+es/modules/03modlist.data.gz') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm
+ line 3129
        CPAN::Index::reload('CPAN::Index') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.
+8.5/CPAN.pm line 786
        CPAN::instance('CPAN=HASH(0x94371e4)', 'CPAN::Bundle', 'Bundle
+::Apache2') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 1428
        CPAN::Shell::local_bundles('CPAN::Shell') called at /usr/lib/p
+erl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 1836
        CPAN::Shell::expandany('CPAN::Shell', 'Bundle::LWP') called at
+ /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 2078
        CPAN::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell', 'install', 'Bundle::LWP')
+ called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 2165
        CPAN::Shell::install('CPAN::Shell', 'Bundle::LWP') called at /
+usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 201
        eval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 201
        CPAN::shell() called at /usr/bin/cpan line 193

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Re: CPAN Install Problem (install Bundle::LWP) by samtregar (Abbot) on May 20, 2005 at 18:13 UTC
It looks to me like you have some corrupt data in your .cpan directory. I'd blow it away and try again: `$ rm -rf /home/user/.cpan $ perl -MCPAN -e shell` [download] Give it a try and let us know how it goes. -sam	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: CPAN Install Problem (install Bundle::LWP) by awohld (Hermit) on May 20, 2005 at 18:33 UTC
Ahh, that worked. It seemed that my Config.pm for CPAN was bad, the http_proxy should have been 'http://myproxy.com:90' instead I had 'myproxy.com:90'. When I ran any intall for the first time I get an "proxy error 501" and the second time and on I get the errors I posted above. CPAN & Perlmonks RULE!!!	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN Install Problem (install Bundle::LWP) by Anonymous Monk on Nov 28, 2018 at 06:31 UTC
How to do this in Windows OS?	[reply]
Re^3: CPAN Install Problem (install Bundle::LWP) by syphilis (Archbishop) on Nov 28, 2018 at 08:39 UTC
How to do this in Windows OS? The first command simply removed the ".cpan" directory. In windows you could achieve the same with: `rmdir /s /q C:/full/path/to/.cpan` [download] but it might be better to simply rename that directory to (say) ".cpan_hide" (or to just delete it to the recycle bin). That way the original .cpan directory is still retrievable. For the second command, I'd try running it unchanged: `perl -MCPAN -e shell` [download] which should hopefully take you through the process of configuring your new ".cpan" directory. However, I'm no expert on CPAN.pm. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]