Thank you all for your help. Clearly my Perl installation is a mess. The agility of my memory has deteriorated since I began programming in assembly language in in the 1950s. I have also become lazy. I use Fedora (currently 31) and have relied on upgrading instead of new installations. As a result the various additions and even separate installations of Perl that I have made over the years still exist on my hard drive, I probably went to cpan as a user as well as root. In addition, I have various additions to @INC in .bashrc and /etc/profile whose purpose I have forgotten. Over ten years ago I was installing Perl from a tarball because Fedora did not include PerlMagick.

My question now is how can I remove all versions of Perl and start with a completely new version including the necessary additions to @INC? Using "dnf remove" or "rpm -e" will only remove my latest version (i.e. perl-5.30.1-449.fc31.x86_64). As a last resort I could completely reinstall Fedora but that would take a long time considering the number of additional programs I have installed and the tweaks I have made.

In reply to Re^2: @INC error by worstead
in thread @INC error by worstead

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