I'm having trouble installing anything at all from CPAN from the command line on my Mac. I'm new to Mac, so lacking in most basic knowledge. Everytime I try to install something, I get this message: 
When trying to read that file I expected to get a hash reference
for further processing, but got garbage instead.
Proceed nonetheless? [no]

[download]
If I try to proceed, the install fails anyway. This happens with every single module I try to install. I've installed the latest CPAN manually, to see if that would make a difference, but nothing. I'm running as admin, so that shouldn't be a problem.

I'm sorry if this is a really obvious newbie question, but I'm at a loss. Please let me know if you need any more info from me in order to help me solve the problem.

Thanks so much, in advance!

In reply to installing from CPAN "got garbage" error by Psychodelicacy

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