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trouble with CPAN using strawberry perl dummy 03-12-2008
Posted by dummy on March 12, 2008, 7:53 pm
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After installing strawberry I ran CPAN::FirstTime, allowing the program
to do all the initialization. After a blindingly scrolling screen, on
which I could read nothing, I saw a message telling me to make a
urllist, which I did.

Then I tried this:

--------------- copied from screen ---------------
cpan> install WWW::Mechanize
Database was generated on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:35:31 GMT
Updating database file ...
Gathering information from index files ...
Obtaining current state of database ...
DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such table: dists(1) at dbdimp.c line
271 at C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib/CPAN/SQLite/DBI/Index.pm line 26,
<DATA> line 52827.
DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such table: dists(1) at dbdimp.c line
271 at C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib/CPAN/SQLite/DBI/Index.pm line 26,
<DATA> line 52827.
Catching error: 'system C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe
-MCPAN::SQLite::META qw(setup update) -e update failed: 512 at
C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib/CPAN/SQLite/META.pm line 315, <IN> line
2.' at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/CPAN.pm line 281
CPAN::shell() called at C:\strawberry\perl\bin/cpan.bat line 211
Database was generated on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:35:31 GMT
Updating database file ...
Gathering information from index files ...
Obtaining current state of database ...
DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such table: dists(1) at dbdimp.c line
271 at C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib/CPAN/SQLite/DBI/Index.pm line 26,
<DATA> line 52827.
DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such table: dists(1) at dbdimp.c line
271 at C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib/CPAN/SQLite/DBI/Index.pm line 26,
<DATA> line 52827.
Lockfile removed.
system C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe -MCPAN::SQLite::META qw(setup
update) -e update failed: 512 at
C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib/CPAN/SQLite/META.pm line 315, <IN> line 2.

c:\>
-----------------------------------------------------

I found an empty file 'cpandb.sql'. Also 'histfile' with one blank line.

What did I omit? What did I do wrong?

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