Details
When you use the installer for vCLI 5.0 or later to install vCLI on a Linux system, this error might appear: CPAN not able to install following Perl modules on the system. These must be installed manually for use by vSphere CLI.
Solution
Verify that your environment meets all prerequisites. For more information, see Getting Stated with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces. Prerequisites include: A supported operating system. Use the released operating system and not a hardened or otherwise customized version. Linux Development Tools and Libraries for the operating system. A set of required Perl modules that must be installed before you run the installer. Internet access to CPAN via proxy, if no direct connection to the internet is available on the machine. This ensures that CPAN installs the required Perl modules automatically as part of vCLI installation. If internet access to CPAN is not available, you have to manually download and install required modules that the error lists from the CPAN website: http://www.cpan.org. Follow the instructions on the CPAN website to install the modules. You might have to download and install additional modules that a missing module depends on. After you install all required modules from CPAN, run the vCLI installer again.
