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Use a better module (Score:1)

by Alias (5735)

CPAN::Mini::Extract is a much better choice for stuff that wants to process all of CPAN.
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  by Ron Savage (5224)
  
  $many x $thanx;
$Archive::Extract::PREFER_BIN = 1; (Score:1)

by ferreira (5993)
I tried Archive::Extract in four of the tarballs mentioned in the error messages you gave:
- DBIx-Perform-0.694.tar.gz
- extensible_report_generator_1.13.zip
- Logfile-Radius-1.14.tar.gz
- ptkFAQ-0_03.tar.gz
All these tarballs seem "not good" from the point of view of Perl/CPAN extraction modules that Archive::Extract uses. These are Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip.
This is a bad thing that these modules are not as robust as possible, but they are good enough for the effort that CPAN volunteer developers pu

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