Re: CPAN (and CPANPLUS) won't install because of a bad signature.

Do you think that you're downloading from a good URL or one that is trying to inject a trojan SQL::Translator? If you think its a good source, delete Module::Signature and that will "solve" your problem.

Module::Signature has had newline issues in some situations, so it's not always reliable. In the link you gave, it's a problem finding the right key to use. Many people run CPAN without Module::Signature and it's just fine. (Module::Signature has been removed from Bundle::CPAN because of the problems that people have had with it.)

You can also manually download and install SQL::Translator if you don't want to delete Module::Signature.

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Re^2: CPAN (and CPANPLUS) won't install because of a bad signature. by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Aug 21, 2006 at 12:01 UTC
Thanks for the tip. I used it. Matt Trout from DBIC suggested rm -f `perldoc -l Module::Signature` as a nice way to do that. Also, when rerunning cpanp... `Could not find or check module 'Module::Signature' [THIS MAY BE A PROB +LEM!] at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/CPANPLUS/Dist.pm line 430 Running [/usr/bin/perl -MCPANPLUS::Internals::Utils::Autoflush Makefil +e.PL ]... Looking for GNU Privacy Guard (gpg), a cryptographic signature tool... GnuPG found (/usr/bin/gpg). Import PAUSE and author keys to GnuPG? [y] n` [download] The default was yes, I answered no.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: CPAN (and CPANPLUS) won't install because of a bad signature.
by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Aug 21, 2006 at 12:01 UTC

Matt Trout from DBIC suggested rm -f `perldoc -l Module::Signature` as a nice way to do that.

Also, when rerunning cpanp...

Could not find or check module 'Module::Signature' [THIS MAY BE A PROB
+LEM!] at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/CPANPLUS/Dist.pm line 430
Running [/usr/bin/perl -MCPANPLUS::Internals::Utils::Autoflush Makefil
+e.PL ]...
Looking for GNU Privacy Guard (gpg), a cryptographic signature tool...
GnuPG found (/usr/bin/gpg).
Import PAUSE and author keys to GnuPG? [y] n
[download]

The default was yes, I answered no.

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