On 01/27/2010 03:03 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: > 2010/1/27 Dan Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> 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 .). >> > Is CPAN.pm actually in any of those paths? > > What perl version are you running (should be 5.8.8, but doesn't hurt to check)? > > If you can find CPAN.pm and it's not in @INC, you can force it by: > > export PERL5LIB=/path1/to/libs:/path2/to/libs > > But to be honest, I don't know what's causing your error - the fact > it's now complaining about CPAN when it was complaining about > MakeMaker before is slightly screwy. > > -- > Sam > I finally fixed my problems, but thanks to your previous post that gave me the idea indirectly, by hinting at: ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm! What I found was to do: yum remove perl-ExtUtils* ...and reinstall 182 packages that were removed as dependencies instead of trying to remove perl itself for which there were 2700+ dependencies. Also, if one did: yum whatdepends CPAN.pm ...and CPAN.pm is found in package: perl-CPAN Apparently, doing 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' barfed and destroyed or messed up the files in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8, or so it seems. Now I will avoid doing perl -MCPAN -e shell so that I do not run into the same problems again for whatever reasons - it was noted on some Fedora sites that it is not a good idea to mix "perl -MCPAN -e shell" community packages against that of yum provided packages. ... Now, I can proceed to figure out how to complete my original intent: to add maildir support to sendmail (as opposed to just installing and using Postfix) as I want the sub-directory feature from which dovecot IMAP gladly supports instead of using the mbox format, which is directory 1-level limited. Kind regards, Dan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines