Guide to the Perl Quest system *updated 16/02/2004*

[finwe]

when i do install IO::Scalar i get the following:

cpan> install IO::Scalar
Going to read \.cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read \.cpan\sources\modules\02packages.details.txt.gz
Warning: Your \.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 \.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.
Going to read \.cpan\sources\modules\03modlist.data.gz
Can't locate object method "data" via package "CPAN::Modulelist" (perhaps you fo
rgot to load "CPAN::Modulelist"?) at (eval 19) line 1.
CPAN::Index::rd_modlist('CPAN::Index','\.cpan\sour ces\modules\03modlist.
data.gz') called at C:/Perl/lib/CPAN.pm line 3129
CPAN::Index::reload('CPAN::Index') called at C:/Perl/lib/CPAN.pm line 67
5
CPAN::exists('CPAN=HASH(0x1cc0634)','CPAN::Module' ,'IO::Scalar') called
at C:/Perl/lib/CPAN.pm line 1842
CPAN::Shell::expandany('CPAN::Shell','IO::Scalar') called at C:/Perl/lib
/CPAN.pm line 2078
CPAN::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell','install','IO: :Scalar') called at C:
/Perl/lib/CPAN.pm line 2165
CPAN::Shell::install('CPAN::Shell','IO::Scalar') called at C:/Perl/lib/C
PAN.pm line 201
eval {...} called at C:/Perl/lib/CPAN.pm line 201
CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1

cpan>

What can be happening???? tks