Thank you for your response Ken and huck. My $PATH has: 
$ echo $PATH
/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/us
+r/sbin:/sbin:/www/application/bin

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And as you suspected which cpan returns /usr/bin/cpan instead of /www/application/localperl/bin/cpan

Also, '~/' is equal to '/www/application/'. I did check DBD::mysql::INSTALL and saw the yum option there to install devel but was not sure if it would install it for system perl.

So this is what I'll try next: I'll add /www/application/localperl/bin to my $PATH and follow huck's advise to get devel package and see how it goes from there.

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