[Bug 907954] Re: Perl CPAN unable to fetch packages with additional packages

[Don Garrett]

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Title:
  Perl CPAN unable to fetch packages with additional packages

Status in “perl” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  CPAN gets errors trying to install CPAN modules on a clean 11.10
  desktop install.

  If you apt-get install the packages "lynx" and "ncftp", then CPAN will
  be able to download perl packages correctly. In one case, after
  fiddling with the CPAN config files (well deleting them to reset to
  default state), I had to uninstall and reinstall lynx and ncftp to get
  cpan back into a working state.

  It does seem that after some CPAN LWP packages related to acting as
  web client are installed, then the external packages are no longer
  used for downloads and can be uninstalled.

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