Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

[Stephan Petersen <sp at gtt-technologies dot de>]

Hi guys,

I updated my cygwin installation and obviously got a new Perl version, 
which means I need to reinstall a lot of modules again...

When I fire up
perl -MCPAN -e shell;
and for instance try to install Config::Inifiles, it fails with strange 
"02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header" 
messages (see below).

Does anybody have similar problems?

Thanks in advance for any pointers,

Stephan



$ perl -MCPAN -e shell;

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7601)
ReadLine support enabled

cpan> install Config::Inifiles
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
LWP not available
CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/source/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read /home/sp/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
LWP not available
Fetching with Net::FTP:

ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/source/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Going to read /home/sp/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Warning: Your /home/sp/.cpan/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 /home/sp/.cpan/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.
LWP not available
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/source/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to read /home/sp/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
syntax error at (eval 32) line 1, near "package CPAN::Mn be u"
 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm line 3406
        CPAN::Index::rd_modlist('CPAN::Index', 
'/home/sp/.cpan/sources/modules/0
3modlist.data.gz') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm line 3129
        CPAN::Index::reload('CPAN::Index') called at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm
line 675
        CPAN::exists('CPAN=HASH(0x106aada0)', 'CPAN::Module', 
'Config::Inifiles'
) called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm line 1842
        CPAN::Shell::expandany('CPAN::Shell', 'Config::Inifiles') 
called at /usr
/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm line 2078
        CPAN::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell', 'install', 
'Config::Inifiles') call
ed at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm line 2165
        CPAN::Shell::install('CPAN::Shell', 'Config::Inifiles') called 
at /usr/l
ib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm line 201
        eval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm line 201
        CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1

cpan> quit
Lockfile removed.

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