You are replying correctly, don't worry about that. Something strange is going on. The version of Perl you installed (sudo yum reinstall perl) has CPAN.pm v1.9402. Unless there's something really strange going on (some distros ship a stripped down version of perl I'm told) you shouldn't have to reinstall CPAN.pm (sudo yum reinstall perl-CPAN). Without knowing the background of how your cpan became broken in the first place I'd suggest investigating CPAN.pm which you do have installed, checking it's version. Perhaps something very odd occurred and you have a newer CPAN installed and the reinstallation attempts have confused matters.

In reply to Re^5: CPAN/Perl Broken by marto
in thread CPAN/Perl Broken by exquisitemb

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