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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:27:53 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To: Stephan Petersen <sp AT gtt-technologies DOT de>
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Subject: Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails
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Stephan wrote:


> Hi guys,

> I just ran "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and tried to install Bundle::LWP.

> But when it does "Scanning cache /home/sp/.cpan/build for sizes", see 
> below, it chokes with (see output below):

> /usr/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
> /usr/bin/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error


> I removed all ~/.cpan stuff, tried it again, no difference.

> Does anybody have an idea what's going on?

> Thanks in advance for any pointers,

Of course I tried it before uploading the apckage, it works here with my
W2k and with XP Pro.  Sorry, cannot reproduce it.


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