"Tassilo v. Parseval" <tassilo.von.parseval@rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message news:<2qfg6bFup3jpU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> Also sprach Jim Keenan:
>
> > Once I read the docs more closely, I realize that that extraneous
> > 'install' was triggering the bizarre behavior. But I have no idea
> > what the relation is between the extraneous 'install' and Junoscript.
>
> The reason is that Junoscript has a file called 'install.pm' in the
> toplevel-directory of the tarball. Since CPAN doesn't need to be fed the
> toplevel name of a module but just the name of one of its packages,
> trying to install 'install' will yield the above behaviour.
>
> Tassilo
Which I might have deduced if I had paid more attention to this line
in the printout:
> > Running install for module install
And since the cpan utility can take a *list* of module names, once I
frustrated its attempt to install the Junoscript distro, it proceeded
to install the package I wanted in the first place.

Thanks.

jimk