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Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"
- From: Greg Matheson <lang at ms dot chinmin dot edu dot tw>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:45:20 +0800
- Subject: Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"
- References: <421DF209.1000902@gtt-technologies.de>
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Stephan Petersen wrote:
> 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).
I see here that the file begins this way:
File: 02packages.details.txt
URL:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt
Description: Package names found in directory $CPAN/authors/id/
Columns: package name, version, path
Intended-For: Automated fetch routines, namespace documentation.
Written-By: Id: mldistwatch 530 2004-12-31 07:19:27Z k
Line-Count: 30179
Last-Updated: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:39:54 GMT
AAC::Pvoice 0.91
J/JO/JOUKE/AAC-Pvoice-0.91.tar.gz
AAC::Pvoice::Bitmap 1.12
J/JO/JOUKE/AAC-Pvoice-0.91.tar.gz
AAC::Pvoice::Dialog 1.01
J/JO/JOUKE/AAC-Pvoice-0.91.tar.gz
Probably your file got damaged, I think.
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Greg Matheson, Taiwan
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