in reply to Re: Install LWP from CPAN on Ubuntu Heron 8.04
in thread Install LWP from CPAN on Ubuntu Heron 8.04

I seem to remember having this problem. moritz is right to point you to the package. I think it's generally a good idea to stick with the Ubuntu packages whenever the needed module (and needed version of the module) is packaged. http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=hardy&keywords=hardy

Not sure if this is related to the reason you're asking, butI did have a problem installing modules via CPAN on Ubuntu 8.04. It would always fail when trying to fetch with LWP. It would take forever to install anything via CPAN. However, I finally realized I didn't have NcFTP installed.

sudo apt-get install ncftp

After that, it was just a matter of setting the paths for ncftp and ncftpget in config file. 

cpan > o conf ncftp /usr/bin/ncftp
cpan > o conf ncftpget /usr/bin/ncftpget

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Still don't know why LWP was failing, but I've moved and life has been more pleasurable since.

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Re^3: Install LWP from CPAN on Ubuntu Heron 8.04
by mpettis (Beadle) on Aug 21, 2008 at 16:54 UTC
    Thanks for this ubuntu link -- Still trying to install WWW::Mechanize. Searched the packages, didn't see it. I added ncftp like you said and tried CPAN again, but got the following error... Any idea what this means? Thanks, Matt 
    cpan> install WWW::Mechanize
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /home/matt/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:03:24 GMT
Running install for module WWW::Mechanize
Running make for P/PE/PETDANCE/WWW-Mechanize-1.34.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm line 64.
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