Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell failed

Richard Lee wrote:
after freshelly installing fedora 9(which is preview version) and which
has perl 5.10 fails command line perl module install.
Granted that it means I don't have cpan.pm module, how come it didn't
come w/ it by default or did I do something wrong?

also, searching for CPAN.pm on cpan.org comes up w/ nothing.. can
someone let me know please?

[root@RLEE perl-5.8.1]# perl -v

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

Copyright 1987-2007, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl". If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

[root@RLEE perl-5.8.1]# perl -MCPAN -e shell
Can't locate CPAN.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
[root@RLEE perl-5.8.1]#

Is this a clean install of Fedora? I'm puzzled by all the mentions of Perl 5.8
here, and wonder if your Perl installation is intact.

You could try downloading CPAN and installing it manually. You can download the
latest version here

http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN/lib/CPAN.pm

and read about manual installation in

perldoc perlmodinstall

HTH,

Rob
.

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