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

Hello monks- this could well be something rather ingorant on my part, but I cant seem to get a module to install. I've been playing with perl for a short while now, and just recently tried to install a module for my first time. Here is the error I got: 
$ perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Illegal character \015 (carriage return) at (eval 6) line 7, <FH> chun
+k 63.
Could not eval '
            package ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version;
            no strict;

            local $VERSION;
            $VERSION=undef; do {
                $VERSION = "0.01";
            }; $VERSION
        ' in RAX.pm: (Maybe you didn't strip carriage returns after a 
+network transfer?)

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If anyone could enlighten me as to what I'm doing wrong here I'd greatly apprecieate it. I don't see why there could be strange linefeeds, I downloaded an unpackged the tgz file on the same Redhat system I'm trying to install onto.

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Re: Makefile problem
by PsychoSpunk (Hermit) on Feb 03, 2001 at 04:12 UTC
    Well, you ran the wrong command. You should have done something like this: 

    # perl -MCPAN -e shell

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    ...
    text floats by 

    cpan> install modulename

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    I find this much more reliable than perl Makefile.PL

    ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

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[d/l]
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      cpan> install modulename

      ...which will eventually run perl Makefile.PL?
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[d/l]
        Yes, but it also will download the files and should get the line endings correct.
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