I went into the CPAN shell and started with 'install Bundle::CPAN', which yielded the following errors:
Recursive dependency detected:
Test::Harness
=> A/AN/ANDYA/Test-Harness-3.17.tar.gz
=> File::Spec
=> S/SM/SMUELLER/PathTools-3.30.tar.gz
=> Scalar::Util
=> G/GB/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.21.tar.gz
=> Test::More
=> M/MS/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.94.tar.gz
=> Test::Harness.
Cannot continue.
I found several other references to this problem, none of which provided a solution for me.
I traced the problem back to List::Util. One low-level module required version 1.21 (which was installed), but gave an error that version 1.19 was installed. I traced the problem to the fact that my Perl installation had two separate directories where List::Util was stored:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/List/Util
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/List/Util
The first directory contained version 1.21, the second directory contained version 1.19.
I solved the problem by removing the multi-thread directories for List and for Scalar:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/List
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Scalar
After this, I was able to install Bundle::CPAN.
Hi,
ReplyDeletei am having a very similar problem... how would i go about "tracing it" as you did?
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install Bundle::CPAN
Running install for module 'Test::Harness'
Running make for A/AN/ANDYA/Test-Harness-3.17.tar.gz
Prepending /root/.cpan/build/Data-Dumper-2.125/blib/arch /root/.cpan/build/Data-Dumper-2.125/blib/lib to PERL5LIB for 'get'
Has already been unwrapped into directory /root/.cpan/build/Test-Harness-3.17-vekN5B
Prepending /root/.cpan/build/Data-Dumper-2.125/blib/arch /root/.cpan/build/Data-Dumper-2.125/blib/lib to PERL5LIB for 'make'
Has already been made
Prepending /root/.cpan/build/Data-Dumper-2.125/blib/arch /root/.cpan/build/Data-Dumper-2.125/blib/lib to PERL5LIB for 'test'
Running make test
Can't use string ("YES") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 2944.
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thanks in advance
the noob...
I traced it through a combination of Google searches (to help know what to look for) followed by attempting to install those four modules one at a time, then trying the dependent failures, and so on down the line.
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