My CPAN is the version that came with my distro, which is devuan ( debian wo systemd ... I LIKE old things! ) 
/usr/local/bin/cpan version 1.64 calling Getopt::Std::getopts (version
+ 1.13 [paranoid]),
running under Perl version 5.36.0.
  [Now continuing due to backward compatibility and excessive paranoia
+.
   See 'perldoc Getopt::Std' about $Getopt::Std::STANDARD_HELP_VERSION
+.]
Nothing to install!

[download]
I got the suggestion in response to a search attempt gone awry ... I guess this all brings up another question ... is there, by any chance, a curated version of CPAN, with the modules that are no longer useful removed or at least pushed to the background .... It can be frustrating using the full set ... got very excited about the WWW::Mechanize::Firefox module at one point ... turned out that Firefox removed the code that allowed it to work long ago ...

In reply to Re^2: is CPAN::WAIT dead? by pope-indigent
in thread is CPAN::WAIT dead? by pope-indigent

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