[ic] CPAN problems

[Jonathan Melhuish]

I'm just trying to install IC 4.8.3 and am finding that although the install 
supposedly completes, it spits out loads of errors in the CPAN stage and 
hence the server doesn't actually start up successfully.

Here's the error messages:

CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://cpan.teleglobe.net/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Can't locate object method "data" via package "CPAN::Modulelist" at (eval 
211) line 1.
        CPAN::Index::rd_modlist('CPAN::Index', 
'/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz') called at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/CPAN.pm line 2586
- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--- 8<--

The files that it is requesting exist at that location, but I changed the 
server via the CPAN console just to be sure.  I've also tried deleting 
everything under /root/.cpan/sources/ but to no avail.  The installers advice 
of "try it again" doesn't seem very effective this time!

Any ideas?

Cheers

Jon