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I am executing command "yum install perl-CPAN". I got the following 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/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .).". Let me give you some details of the problem.
OS: CentOS release 5.4 (Final) Architecture: : 32 Bit Installed Perl Version: This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
I've also studies previous posts on this topic which says "yum install perl-CPAN" will fix the problem when I execute this command I got "No package perl-CPAN available".
Thanks a lot for your quick reply. I've downloaded CPAN-1.9402.tar.gz but I don't know exact commands to install. I want to install following modules. So please assist me in this regard.
after getting cpan> prompt as you got there type h or ? or help to know all what you can do with that cpan as:
Code:
cpan> help
Display Information
command argument description
a,b,d,m WORD or /REGEXP/ about authors, bundles, distributions, modules
i WORD or /REGEXP/ about anything of above
r NONE reinstall recommendations
ls AUTHOR about files in the author's directory
Download, Test, Make, Install...
get download
make make (implies get)
test MODULES, make test (implies make)
install DISTS, BUNDLES make install (implies test)
clean make clean
look open subshell in these dists' directories
readme display these dists' README files
Other
h,? display this menu ! perl-code eval a perl command
o conf [opt] set and query options q quit the cpan shell
reload cpan load CPAN.pm again reload index load newer indices
autobundle Snapshot force cmd unconditionally do cmd
cpan>
Now I think you can do whatever you want with CPAN now.
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