CPAN said I had an update this morning, so I performed it, to v2.36 . I THINK the previous version was around 1.96. I'm not sure because on the older systems, the command 
linux> cpan -v
linux>

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does just that (nothing, no error, but no version either). On the updated system it reports v.2.36

Since the update, when I try to do almost anything, I get this message: 

CPAN: Net::SSLeay loaded ok (v1.55)
CPAN: IO::Socket::SSL loaded ok (v2.056)
Fetching with HTTP::Tiny:
https://cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
HTTP::Tiny failed with an internal error: SSL connection failed for cp
+an.org: SSL connect attempt failed error:14090086:SSL routines:ssl3_g
+et_server_certificate:certificate verify failed

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I talked to CHATBOT AI, who suggested I edit ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm and change 'urllist' => [qhttps://cpan.org/] </code>to'urllist' => [q[http://cpan.org/]] (remove the "s") which I did; no effect.

I also tried to change it to both of these: 

'urllist' => [q[http://metacpan.org/]]
and
'urllist' => [q[http://cpantesters.org/]]

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But the error remained. It STILL looked in https://cpan.org, no matter WHAT I set that line to.

I also deleted /.cpan/BUILD , which chatbotAI said would kill the cache. No change, still the same error. It's ignoring the config changes. Yet when I rm -f .cpan, it rebuilds it THERE. So it does expect the config to be there. I'm doing all of this as root. I also did an updatebb and then locate on .cpan and the only one on the box is under ~/. Surprisingly, even 

cpan -M https://cpan.cpantesters.org/ Crypt::RSA

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results in the same error and STILL looks in cpan.org! 
Fetching with HTTP::Tiny:
https://cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz

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Friday, I have a ton of code to write, and down this rabbit-hole was the LAST thing I needed! Help is most appreciated- even help on going BACK to v1.9x ?

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