Re: CPAN versions out of date

It may happen because you have an outdated packaged.details or modlist.data file. I'd try the following:

Make sure you've shut down the CPAN shell.
Delete the mentioned files from your cpan directory (rm ~/.cpan/sources/modules/0[23]* usually does the trick; adjust if you use a different cpan directory)
Try again.

If that doesn't work, force CPAN to use a mirror which you know is up to date.

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Re^2: CPAN versions out of date by Anonymous Monk on Oct 05, 2008 at 04:10 UTC
or you could just reload index `cpan> reload index Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/modules/03modlist.data.gz Database was generated on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:17:30 GMT Updating database file ... Gathering information from index files ... Obtaining current state of database ... Populating database tables ... Done! cpan>` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: CPAN versions out of date
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 05, 2008 at 04:10 UTC


cpan> reload index
Fetching with LWP:
  http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Fetching with LWP:
  http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Fetching with LWP:
  http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Database was generated on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:17:30 GMT
Updating database file ...
Gathering information from index files ...
Obtaining current state of database ...
Populating database tables ...
Done!

cpan>
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