Perl/CPAN Keeps failing [SOLVED]

[Simon Matthews]

Replying to my own email:

On 1/29/24 11:04, Simon Matthews wrote:
> I keep getting errors when trying to install Perl packages using CPAN.
> I can see some quite old discussions that appear to say that the
> problem is solved by mounting the .cpan directory in binmode, but the
> options in that solution given to the mount command are not accepted.
> I have deleted my .cpan directory and tried multiple times.
>
> Error:
>
> cpan[1]> install Verilog::Netlist
> Reading '/home/build/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz'
> ............................................................................DONE
>
> Reading '/home/build/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz'
> Warning: Your
> /home/build/.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/build/.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.
> .Could not split
> line["`\cOF_??????l???\\?G?k??4??\$????2Y`N??,??o???H%?Xr?q??\c\\\cT?e???vM]m??-^?????o?/?v???d?-\cO?8Ts?r~??VKkiZ?*F??\cS?;?.y!?<?\e.H??7?y?sJ-????v>?w?w?\c?\cM"]
> Could not split
> line["2\cS???;??i{j?/?????\cD???o7?&G??!o???d?dn??eZ???K?\cF?K?3?\cPmm\c^l?,?\cD\e(??\cBwQ?\c^\cM"]
> Could not split
> line["??\c\\D}?\@F?gY?\cDSg\cPn\cNG??\@?M}????8;??d??\cR???F?\\???:??\cYB?#?<\cR\cUD??'?\cE??P?Z??1wg+?6dg?\c]IBX?i?x8?Gz?\cM"]
> Could not split
> line["\c]???\cH?\e\cR7!b\c@??&???hu?+?7lc?\cR;?>\c_*?&??r??7??9????R???C\c]\cV\cR^?\cY\e?\cHm???\cRz+#??\cA]?\cO\c@\c@????ms?0\cP??J???osm????W^?h?\cK?\cM"]
> Giving up parsing your
> /home/build/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz, too many
> errorsReading '/home/build/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz'
> ............................................................................DONE
>
>
> Claimed solution here:
>
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2005-February/129418.html
>
> but the mount no longer accepts  any of the options "-s", "-b" or "-u"
>
> Suggestions on how to deal with this?
>
>
>
The suggestion to mount the .cpan directory in binmode was the solution.
Previous descriptions of this referenced syntax for the mount command
which is no longer valid.

I created a directory c:\CPAN.

I then added the following to /etc/fstab:

c:/cpan /home/build/.cpan ntfs binary 0 0

and ran "mount -a". After this, I was able to successfully run cpan.

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