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From: "David Christensen" <dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:46:00 -0800
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Stephan Petersen wrote:
...
> When I fire up
> perl -MCPAN -e shell;
> and for instance try to install Config::Inifiles, it fails
...
> Please check the validity of the index file by comparing it to more
> than one CPAN mirror.

Have you tried this?  E.g. configured CPAN to use another mirror and tried
again?


HTH,

David



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