in reply to [SOLVED] Cannot install CPAN modules

Did you build your own perl, or is this the 64-bit ubuntu perl? What does perl -V show? FWIW, I have no problems installing modules on 64-bit ubuntu: 
cpan[1]> test List::MoreUtils
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.15)
Going to read /home/ysth/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:06:57 GMT
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v2.036)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.86)

I would like to connect to one of the following sites to get 'authors/
+01mailrc.txt.gz':

 http://www.perl.org/CPAN/
 ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/

Is it OK to try to connect to the Internet? [yes] 
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.62)
Going to read /home/ysth/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
......................................................................
+......DONE
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Going to read /home/ysth/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.
+gz
  Database was generated on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:02:47 GMT
......................................................................
+......DONE
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to read /home/ysth/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
......................................................................
+......DONE
Going to write /home/ysth/.cpan/Metadata
Running test for module 'List::MoreUtils'
Running make for V/VP/VPARSEVAL/List-MoreUtils-0.22.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/V/VP/VPARSEVAL/List-MoreUtils-0.
+22.tar.gz

  CPAN: checksum security checks disabled because Digest::SHA not inst
+alled.
  Please consider installing the Digest::SHA module.

Scanning cache /home/ysth/.cpan/build for sizes
.....................................................................-
+------DONE
DEL(1/1): /home/ysth/.cpan/build/Test-Harness-3.10 
List-MoreUtils-0.22/
List-MoreUtils-0.22/Changes
List-MoreUtils-0.22/dhash.h
List-MoreUtils-0.22/lib/
List-MoreUtils-0.22/lib/List/
List-MoreUtils-0.22/lib/List/MoreUtils.pm
List-MoreUtils-0.22/Makefile.PL
List-MoreUtils-0.22/MANIFEST
List-MoreUtils-0.22/META.yml
List-MoreUtils-0.22/MoreUtils.xs
List-MoreUtils-0.22/multicall.h
List-MoreUtils-0.22/README
List-MoreUtils-0.22/t/
List-MoreUtils-0.22/t/0_pod.t
List-MoreUtils-0.22/t/0_pod_coverage.t
List-MoreUtils-0.22/t/List-MoreUtils-pp.t
List-MoreUtils-0.22/t/List-MoreUtils.t
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.20)

  CPAN.pm: Going to build V/VP/VPARSEVAL/List-MoreUtils-0.22.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for List::MoreUtils
Testing if you have a C compiler
cc -c   -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN -fno-s
+trict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE
+_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2   -DVERSION=\"0.22\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.22\" -fPIC 
+"-I/usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE"  -DPERL_EXT test.c
cp lib/List/MoreUtils.pm blib/lib/List/MoreUtils.pm
/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /usr/share/pe
+rl/5.8/ExtUtils/typemap  MoreUtils.xs > MoreUtils.xsc && mv MoreUtils
+.xsc MoreUtils.c
cc -c   -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN -fno-s
+trict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE
+_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2   -DVERSION=\"0.22\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.22\" -fPIC 
+"-I/usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE"  -DPERL_EXT MoreUtils.c
Running Mkbootstrap for List::MoreUtils ()
chmod 644 MoreUtils.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/List/MoreUtils/MoreUtils.so
cc  -shared -L/usr/local/lib MoreUtils.o  -o blib/arch/auto/List/MoreU
+tils/MoreUtils.so     \
             \
      
chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/List/MoreUtils/MoreUtils.so
cp MoreUtils.bs blib/arch/auto/List/MoreUtils/MoreUtils.bs
chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/List/MoreUtils/MoreUtils.bs
Manifying blib/man3/List::MoreUtils.3pm
  VPARSEVAL/List-MoreUtils-0.22.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- OK
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h
+arness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/0_pod..................ok   
t/0_pod_coverage.........ok   
t/List-MoreUtils-pp......ok       
t/List-MoreUtils.........ok       
All tests successful.
Files=4, Tests=264,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.04 usr  0.01 sys +  0.90 cus
+r  0.15 csys =  1.10 CPU)
Result: PASS
  VPARSEVAL/List-MoreUtils-0.22.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make test -- OK

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Re^2: Cannot install CPAN modules
by azredwing (Sexton) on Aug 04, 2008 at 00:51 UTC
    Here's the output of perl -V: 

    Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.15.7, archname=x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-mu
+lti
    uname='linux yellow 2.6.15.7 #1 smp sun sep 23 13:51:52 utc 2007 x
+86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Dccc
+dlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=x86_64-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/us
+r/share/perl/5.8 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.8 -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dve
+ndorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/us
+r/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/l
+ib/perl/5.8.8 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/
+man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/m
+an3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs
+ -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.
+so.5.8.8 -Dd_dosuid -des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti
+plicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS 
+-DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE
+_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN 
+-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.2.
+2-3ubuntu4)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+6
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.6.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.s
+o.5.8.8
    gnulibc_version='2.6.1'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP THREADS_HAVE_PIDS USE_64_BIT_
+ALL
                        USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
                        USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Nov 27 2007 10:56:40
  @INC:
    /etc/perl
    /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8
    /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/share/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl/5.8
    /usr/share/perl/5.8
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
    .

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    This is the Perl that came with Ubuntu64. Oddly enough, I am running a 64 bit desktop and that works fine; just the 64 bit notebook is breaking...

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      Try:

      cpan WeakRef Task::Weaken

      Update: Just a suggestion because bash will vehemently complain if you don't have the right gcc installed..

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