[Bug 907954] [NEW] Perl CPAN unable to fetch packages with additional packages

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CPAN gets errors trying to install CPAN modules on a clean 11.10 desktop
install.

If you apt-get install the packages "lynx" and "ncftp", then CPAN will
be able to download perl packages correctly. In one case, after fiddling
with the CPAN config files (well deleting them to reset to default
state), I had to uninstall and reinstall lynx and ncftp to get cpan back
into a working state.

It does seem that after some CPAN LWP packages related to acting as web
client are installed, then the external packages are no longer used for
downloads and can be uninstalled.

** Affects: perl (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment
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Perl CPAN unable to fetch packages with additional packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/907954
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