From:	(Andreas J. Koenig)	Date:	Sun Jun  8 13:30:26 2008
Subject:	Re: cpan "couldn't untar"

>>>>> On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 13:22:20 -0700, "Peter Michaux" <petermichaux@gmail.com> said:

  > Help sorting this out is greatly appreciated.

My gut feeling is that it is a permission problem. CPAN 1.7602 is
*quite* old and had no good error messages for perrmission problems.
So if you can somehow install stable 1.9205 or developer release
1.92_62 manually and then retry I'd expect the error messages will
give you more clue.

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andreas