[PLUG] screwed up perl

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

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Disclaimer:  I don't really know or understand perl.  However, I used to 
successfully use cpan to get modules that other apps needed.  That was on 
another machine.

The machine I am currently using didn't seem to have cpan installed.  I wanted 
to install spamassassin which needed Digest::SHA1.  I went to the cpan.org 
website to get the cpan module so that I could get Digest::SHA1 (and whatever 
else I might need in the future).  I downloaded Bundle-Everything.tar.gz but 
there were no install instructions.  Stupidly, I executed the included 
update-bundle.pl (as a regular user, not root) and now cpan is on the system 
but refuses to work.  Here is the message I get:

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[arthur@rodney arthur]$ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Digest::SHA1'
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read perl -MCPAN -e 'install 
Bundle::Everything'/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
/bin/gzip: invalid option -- C
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Going to read perl -MCPAN -e 'install 
Bundle::Everything'/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
/bin/gzip: invalid option -- C
Warning: Your perl -MCPAN -e 'install 
Bundle::Everything'/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz does not 
contain a Line-Count header.
Please check the validity of the index file by comparing it to more
than one CPAN mirror. I'll continue but problems seem likely to
happen.
Warning: Your perl -MCPAN -e 'install 
Bundle::Everything'/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz does not 
contain a Last-Updated header.
Please check the validity of the index file by comparing it to more
than one CPAN mirror. I'll continue but problems seem likely to
happen.
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to read perl -MCPAN -e 'install 
Bundle::Everything'/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
/bin/gzip: invalid option -- C
Can't locate object method "data" via package "CPAN::Modulelist" (perhaps you 
forgot to load "CPAN::Modulelist"?) at (eval 26) line 1.
        CPAN::Index::rd_modlist('CPAN::Index', 'perl -MCPAN -e \'install 
Bundle::Everything\'/sources/modules/03...') called at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/CPAN.pm line 3002
        CPAN::Index::reload('CPAN::Index') called at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/CPAN.pm line 620
        CPAN::exists('CPAN=HASH(0x8447740)', 'CPAN::Module', 'Digest::SHA1') 
called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/CPAN.pm line 1735
        CPAN::Shell::expandany('CPAN::Shell', 'Digest::SHA1') called at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/CPAN.pm line 1969
        CPAN::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell', 'install', 'Digest::SHA1') called 
at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/CPAN.pm line 2056
        CPAN::Shell::install('CPAN::Shell', 'Digest::SHA1') called at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/CPAN.pm line 75
        CPAN::AUTOLOAD('Digest::SHA1') called at -e line 1
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I get the complaints about Bundle::Everything no matter what I try to do.  I 
can't find anything on the cpan.org site which explains how downloads are 
installed (which is why I wanted to use cpan.pm to download and install stuff 
in the first place).  

Can anyone offer suggestions to fix this mess I made and get me back on track 
with a working cpan, please?
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Art Alexion
Arthur S. Alexion LLC
arthur [at] alexion [dot] com
aim: aalexion
sms: 2679725536 [at] messaging [dot] sprintpcs [dot] com

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