I fixed the 'cpan still running' problem with a reboot, I had uninstalled my old version of Perl, I forget which build it was, but that version had a binary version of PPM3 you could run just by entering ppm3, instead of ppm3-bin. I tried CPANPlus, and it's definately better than CPAN, but I still have problems with a few modules (Eg: DBD::mysql) which I could get under PPM3, but won't pass the make requirements (and won't tell me what I'm missing), under CPAN++.

As to manual installs, I have only once gotten that to work... and that was CPAN++ I was installing :)

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