Sorry if I seem a bit air headed. I'm still learning.

There's a lot of back story to this but putting it simply, I'm running Linux Fedora 20 on a bootable USB stick but I've ecountered the same problems(and more problems) on Vista and Win7 with Strawberry.

system Perl was not with the bootable OS so I installed it with sudo yum install perl.

As per your suggestion I looked into the $PATH enviroment variable. After installing Perl the perl and perldoc commands worked without /usr/bin/perl being a part of the enviroment variable. I assume those codes worked because even though Shebang line of my programs would validly be #!/usr/bin/perl the perl part of the code isnt a directory so since the $PATH enviroment variable included /usr/bin the bash commands worked.

I've started rambling on. I'm going to study up more on PATH and enviroment to see if I can fix this. Thanks for the tip. I added /usr/bin/perl to the PATH variable but of course that did nothing. My current $PATH is as follows.

[root@localhost ~]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/IrishMonk
+/.local/bin:/home/IrishMonk/bin:/usr/bin/perl

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If I type perl -v the output looks like this

[root@localhost ~]# perl -v

This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for i386-linu
+x-thread-multi
(with 18 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2013, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

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In reply to Re^2: cpanminus installing but not working by IrishMonk
in thread cpanminus installing but not working by IrishMonk

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