I think the first thing you should do is check your system's clock; it's not 9 May 2002. ;)

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ROFL, ty indeed Ed! (holds head in shame)

Well I said it was a FRESH install

Ok, I get that past make , make test on the other hand is throwing up a quite alarming number of Uninitialised strings and other things, so my next question....would it be wise to go ahead and install?

Perhaps I am doing something naive, I am just trying to add a few modules to the existing perl binary shipped with the system, should I be rebuilding perl completely ?

Here's the output of make test...

Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
t/dumper.t               162   78  48.15%  1 3-4 6-7 9-10 12-13 15-16 
+18-19 21-
                                           22 24-25 27-28 30-31 33-34 
+36-37 39-
                                           40 42 49 51-52 54-55 57-58 
+60-61 63-
                                           64 66-67 69-70 72-73 75-76 
+78-79 81-
                                           82 84-85 87-88 90 97 99-100
+ 102-103
                                           105-106 108-109 111-112 114
+-115 117-
                                           118 120 145 147 151 153 157
+ 159
Failed 1/2 test scripts, 50.00% okay. 78/163 subtests failed, 52.15% o
+kay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29
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Call me silly, but Data::Dumper should already be in your Red Hat supplied installation of Perl.

You can test whether you already have a module with a command like the following:

% perl -MData::Dumper -e1
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It'll give an applicable error message, or no response for success. For a more inspiring test of this module, try:

% perl -MData::Dumper -e 'print Dumper {one=>1};'
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As for the larger question of building modules you fetch from CPAN, most are nowhere near so complicated as this.

I'm not a fan of CPAN's "shell" but you might want to google for something like cpan shell redhat howto and walk through some examples.

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this may be helpful information:

[andyf@localhost Data-Dumper-2.101]$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
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use Module::CoreList;
$_ = 'Data::Dumper';
local $\="\n";
print for
$Module::CoreList::version{5.006}{$_},
$Module::CoreList::version{5.006001}{$_},
$Module::CoreList::version{5.008}{$_};
__END__
2.101
2.102
2.12
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MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo! I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests. ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.