in reply to cpan issues on 5.16

I recommend you take this opportunity to stop what you are doing and instead try the following:

$ \curl -L http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash $ source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc $ perlbrew install perl-5.16.3 $ perlbrew switch perl-5.16.3 $ perlbrew install-cpanm $ cpanm IO::Prompt

Why? Perlbrew allows you to install versions of Perl that are separate from the system Perl that comes with the RedHat distro. You can install it for a non-privileged user without having to depend upon your system administrator. Even if you do have root access, perlbrew keeps your CPAN installations away from what your Red Hat OS needs and uses. Be sure and read the documentation, but just an extra 10 minutes now can save you weeks in the future. Good luck!

jeffa

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(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

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Re^2: cpan issues on 5.16
by gg48gg (Sexton) on Apr 01, 2015 at 21:50 UTC
    Makes sense, and may be the way I go. I have played around with perlbrew before, and it has confused me. I guess I need to better understand perlbrew and how to switch between the systems's perl, and perlbrew, and how to control what perl automated scripts (e.g. via cron) will use. I would also like to understand if the issues I am seeing with cpan are related to version 5.16.3, versus perl 5.10 which I am more experienced with. Additionally, I am specifically needing perl-rrdtool and have not found it for RHEL7, so I may end up installing RHEL6 which comes with perl 5.10 AFAIK.