Jeff, Thanks. After I emailed the questins I started refining my google searches and stumbled upon that info. As your email came in I got it installed. Thanks. John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" >>> Jeff Voskamp <javoskam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 3/10/2008 2:16:26 PM >>> John BORIS wrote: > On a fresh install of Fedora 8 I updated the Perl installation through > yum. I then tried to use CPAN.pm and it can't be found. I tried this: > > perl -MCPAN -e shell and get this error: > > Can't locate CPAN.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi > /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/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi > /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 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .). > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. > > > I did a find for CPAN.pm and it isn't loaded. I searched on CPAN.org > for help and all I can see there is that it is supposed to be bundled > with the perl installation. Am I missing something? > > John J. Boris, Sr. > JEN-A-SyS Administrator > Archdiocese of Philadelphia > > "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel > Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" > > Is the perl-CPAN package installed? "yum install perl-CPAN" Jeff Voskamp
