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On the freshly installed debian4, cpan gives me following error:

Running make for M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-Parser-2.34.tar.gz
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
http://mirror.mirimar.net/cpan/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-Parser-2.34.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://mirror.mirimar.net/cpan/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/CHECKSUMS
Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::gzopen called at /usr/share/perl/5.8/CPAN.pm line 5722.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
no matter what I am trying to install.

How do I fix this ? This is freshly installed debian4 and I
cannot install any perl module. I need to install tons of perl modules.

Yakov

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cpan not working ...

Submitted by pinniped on Mon, 2007-05-14 09:12.

You need to find out what software is required to do all your PERL work. Perhaps you just need to install 'zlibc'? To be safe you really need to check what is required by the PERL scripts - you may need to install a lot more than just a simple compression library.

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experiencing the same failure

Submitted by Lord Frettchen on Tue, 2007-07-03 03:03.

hello together,

i've an old sles8 here (slox4 on it), running a perl 5.8.0 ago. now i installed the latest stable 5.8.8 and i'm getting a similar failure as you described above:

Catching error: 'Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::gzopen called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN/Tarzip.pm line 103.
' at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 274
CPAN::shell() called at /usr/local/bin/cpan line 198

did you solve your problem? what was it? has anyone else any ideas what's probably going wrong on my machine? 5.8.0 worked fine except updating spamassassin, so that was the reason for updating perl.

greetings

fritz

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experiencing the same failure

Submitted by pinniped on Tue, 2007-07-03 03:43.

The scripts may be written for the 'default' config/compile of PERL. On Debian (in fact most systems), PERL is not put into the /usr/local/ directory but the /usr directory (/usr/{bin,lib,include}). So the first thing to check is that perl is being invoked correctly. The next thing to do is to actually look at the file which is failing and see what line isn't working; you can usually figure out what's gone wrong from there.

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cpan not working ...

Submitted by Youdaman on Wed, 2007-07-04 01:20.

I had the same trouble on another distro -- the solution (for me) was to delete all the Compress::Zlib files (or at least files under my perl installation containing the word "Compress" or "Zlib") and just restart CPAN and install what I needed. That way, a fresh Compress::Zlib (and whatever else I deleted) was downloaded from CPAN and installed.

The command I used to delete all the Compress::Zlib files was:
rm -rf `find /usr/lib/perl5/ | grep Compress | grep Zlib`

Note: my distro installs all its Perl stuff under /usr/lib/perl5, so you may need to look in multiple locations in Debian, as I know it installs some things under /usr and others under /usr/local

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'Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::gzopen called ..'

Submitted by squishy on Wed, 2009-01-21 18:09.

Try running 'cpan -r'
It'll take a while.

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