At 08:38 AM 6/1/2001 -0600, Dan Egli wrote:
>I was using the CPAN module to install a couple of modules that I needed for
>programs, and I keep noticing that it says:
>
>Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> Database was generated on Wed, 30 May 2001 18:59:02 GMT
> HTTP::Date not available
>
>I tried doing perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTTP::Date', but it returns:
>
>Can't locate object method "install" via package "HTTP::Date" (perhaps you
>forgot to load "HTTP::Date"?) at -e line 1.
I find that hard to believe, since this is exactly what you would see if
you did instead
perl -e 'install HTTP::Date'
and left the -MCPAN out. Can you recheck, because if you really typed what
you said you did you have a much weirder problem than one generally encounters.