Installing Perl: A Chicken-and-Egg Problem
A couple days ago the SD card on a Raspberry Pi lost its beady little mind, and I ended up rebuilding the system from scratch. I generally build my own Perl (also from scratch) and then install the modules I need. So that I can have a log file to rummage through in the event of a problem, I start by configuring the CPAN client interactively, and then doing
$ cpan YAML 2>&1 | tee YAML.log $ cpan Bundle::CPAN 2>&1 | tee YAML.log
Normally I would now install the modules specific to my use. But when I tried this time I got
HTTP::Tiny failed with an i…