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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:34:50 +0100
From: Stephan Petersen <sp AT gtt-technologies DOT de>
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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"
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Hi David,

>>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?

yes, it's the same for every CPAN mirror I've tried. I've deleted CPAN's
config.pm and my .cpan directory several times now, it's the same after
every reconfiguration.

Testing 02packages.details.txt.gz with gzip -t reports:
gzip: 02packages.details.txt.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated

Same with 03modlist.data.gz.

I'm using cygwin on W2k with default text file type "DOS", in case
that's relevant.

Stephan


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