ok, I'm abit further along now, tar and gzip appear to be configured properly and working, but this "y" dir seems to be still causing a problem. I put the full path in the CPAN Config.pm file which worked a bit (i.e the script ran abit longer), but both the Scoop install script and install Bundle::CPAN crash out at the same place. I have created an alternative path to the files without the y dir, but don't know how to change what the script executes as it imports the path from elsewhere. see below -

Couldn't rename CPAN-1.70 to y/build/CPAN-1.70: No such file or direct
+ory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 3868
        CPAN::Distribution::get('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x93dc31c)') 
+called at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 4873
        CPAN::Bundle::contains('CPAN::Bundle=HASH(0x90f57c0)') called 
+at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 4835
        CPAN::Bundle::color_cmd_tmps('CPAN::Bundle=HASH(0x90f57c0)',0,
+1) called
at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 2018
        CPAN::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell','install','Bundle::CPAN') 
+called at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 2102
        CPAN::Shell::install('CPAN::Shell','Bundle::CPAN') called at /
+usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 186
        eval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 186
        CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1
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