in reply to cpan trouble, where to start?

I suggest that you leave the system Perl for the system to use, and install your own elsewhere. One of the reasons for suggesting this is that people messing around with the system perl can find their systems unstable, or even unusable. I seem to recall Apple themselves wrecked the system Perl when upgrading some modules, resulting in unstable machines.

You can use perlbrew or the manual installation instructions in README/INSTALL.

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Re^2: cpan trouble, where to start?
by PerlPeer (Novice) on Jan 09, 2013 at 23:00 UTC
    Thanks for the advice!
    I figured it would be a simple update, not a complete system remodeling (which is far above my capabilites).
    I am reading up about perlbrew now.
    I probably return with questions about this in the near future.