Good Monday* Monks and Nuns. Over the weekend I sought to install the Dist::Zilla module and of course its dependencies. Previously I had tried to create a stack of the necessary modules using Pinto (and that's another story)

The message emitted by cpanm looks approximately like this ("approximately" because I tidied it up in vim):


! Installing the dependencies failed:
Module 'Moose' is not installed
Module 'Config::MVP::Assembler' is not installed
Module 'Test::File::ShareDir' is not installed
Module 'MooseX::Types' is not installed
Module 'DateTime' is not installed
Module 'MooseX::Types::Perl' is not installed
Module 'Perl::PrereqScanner' is not installed
Module 'Config::MVP::Assembler::WithBundles' is not installed
Module 'Config::MVP::Reader' is not installed
Module 'Config::MVP' is not installed
Module 'CPAN::Uploader' is not installed
Module 'MooseX::Role::Parameterized' is not installed
Module 'Sub::Exporter::ForMethods' is not installed
Module 'Log::Dispatchouli' is not installed
Module 'namespace::autoclean' is not installed
Module 'Moose::Role' is not installed
Module 'File::Copy::Recursive' is not installed
Module 'MooseX::Types::Moose' is not installed
Module 'App::Cmd::Tester::CaptureExternal' is not installed
Module 'MooseX::LazyRequire' is not installed
Module 'Config::MVP::Reader::INI' is not installed
Module 'Test::Fatal' is not installed
Module 'Config::MVP::Reader::Finder' is not installed
Module 'Moose::Util::TypeConstraints' is not installed
Module 'MooseX::SetOnce' is not installed
Module 'Config::MVP::Reader::Findable::ByExtension' is not installed
Module 'Config::MVP::Section' is not installed
Module 'App::Cmd::Command::version' is not installed
Module 'App::Cmd::Tester' is not installed
Module 'App::Cmd::Setup' is not installed
! Bailing out the installation for Dist-Zilla-6.037.

cpanm was invoked like this:
cpanm -v -L ~/Repositories_Perl/Dist-Zilla --self-contained Dist::Zilla

The system has these characteristics:
{flyboi linux - 6.1.0-42-686 {LMDE 6 (faye)} i686} sys data courtesy this newly-installed CPAN module

Perl is running like this:


  perl-5.42.0
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Aug 11 2025 15:34:31
  %ENV:
    PERL5LIB=""
    PERLBREW_HOME="/home/somian/.perlbrew"
    PERLBREW_MANPATH="/home/somian/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/man"
    PERLBREW_PATH="/home/somian/perl5/perlbrew/bin:/home/somian/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/bin"
    PERLBREW_PERL="perl-5.42.0"
    PERLBREW_ROOT="/home/somian/perl5/perlbrew"
    PERLBREW_SHELLRC_VERSION="1.02"
    PERLBREW_VERSION="1.02"
    PERL_CPANM_OPT="--verbose --with-recommends --with-suggests --no-man-pages --cascade-search --wget --mirror http://192.168.1.7/mincpan --mirror https://cpan.metacpan.org/"
  @INC:
    /home/somian/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/lib/site_perl/5.42.0/i686-linux-thread-multi-64int
    /home/somian/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/lib/site_perl/5.42.0
    /home/somian/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/lib/5.42.0/i686-linux-thread-multi-64int
    /home/somian/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/lib/5.42.0

Feb 09, 2026 at 18:05 UTC
* Monday for many but not all of you

In reply to cpanm under PerlBrew instance chokes trying to install all these by Intrepid

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