"perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap"

I cut and pasted the commands I gave (with adjustments for the ...s) so do them just that way. I didn't have to configure cpan but I'm not actually sure that's because my machine has a "special" state or because you're skipping one of the steps or something is wonky.

It still sounds like your env has ghosts of some sort. I'd start from scratch again. It should be just a couple minutes to run it all from the top.

Remember before running the Makefile.PL -- env | grep -i perl -- should show NO variables set. And you should get these as being non-existent:

ls ~/.cpan
# ls: /home/moo/.cpan: No such file or directory

ls ~/.cpanp
# ls: /home/moo/.cpanp: No such file or directory

ls ~/.cpanm
# ls: /home/moo/.cpanm: No such file or directory

ls ~/perl5
# ls: /home/moo/perl5: No such file or directory

ls ~/perl
# ls: /home/moo/perl: No such file or directory
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I'll try this on one of my boxes I know causes problems tonight and report if it is indeed "correct" and amend otherwise.

I tried it again, and result is the same . "env | grep -i perl" does not shown *any* environment variables. The PERL5LIB was showing up, but I unset it using "unset PERL5LIB". And also, none of these directories actually exist.

Thanks again.

Andy

Another interesting thing. When I do "perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap" , the first few lines are as follow:

==Error==

Attempting to create file /home/andy/perl5/.modulebuildrc

ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.31 required--this is only version 6.30_01.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

ExtUtils::Install version 1.43 required--this is only version 1.33.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

CPAN version 1.82 required--this is only version 1.7602.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

==End=

I'll be damned… apparently this is completely kosher even though it complains like mad-

• rm -rf ~/.cpan ; perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap
• Say "yes" if prompted by the cpan shell for configure automatically
• make install

So, just do that (maybe more than once, I did it several times before I discovered it was working) and the make install "works." You'll know it worked when this works–

perl -I~/perl5/lib -Mlocal::lib

And when it does, put it into your shell .rc file and source it or rehash.

My "install" was terribly noisy and definitely appeared to fail but I had no trouble installing App::cpanminus and other modules after setting the shell stuff.

Good luck!