So I may or may not have broken my Perl/CPAN installation. I honestly don't use either that much, but I need to use it now to run a game server on my VPS. The instructions say to downgrade Perl to 5.14.4, with these commands: 

sudo cpan App::perlbrew
perlbrew init
perlbrew install perl-5.14.4
perlbrew switch perl-5.14.4

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I ran the first one, and I get this error: 
Loading internal null logger. Install Log::Log4perl for logging messag
+es
Reading '/Metadata'
    Database was generated on Mon, 01 Apr 2019 07:17:03 GMT
Running install for module 'App::perlbrew'
Checksum for yes/authors/id/G/GU/GUGOD/App-perlbrew-0.86.tar.gz ok
Cannot gzopen yes/authors/id/G/GU/GUGOD/App-perlbrew-0.86.tar.gz: cann
+ot open file 'yes/authors/id/G/GU/GUGOD/App-perlbrew-0.86.tar.gz': No
+ such file or directory
Cannot gzopen yes/authors/id/G/GU/GUGOD/App-perlbrew-0.86.tar.gz: cann
+ot open file 'yes/authors/id/G/GU/GUGOD/App-perlbrew-0.86.tar.gz': No
+ such file or directory
Directory 'yes/GUGOD-lhfQ4l' has gone. Cannot continue.

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I tried to do this same thing a couple months ago, and when I was configuring CPAN, I kind of just held enter for most of the options. It's foggy, but I think some of those were asking which the directory to save stuff in was, to which I guess the default answer was just "yes". This broke cpan already so I gave up on the project, then a few months later I must've deleted the "yes" folder it made. I can no longer use CPAN. I tried uninstalling Perl but I guess that breaks stuff on Ubuntu so I didn't. A few months later, I'd like to try to install this game server again, but I'm running into the same issue. How do I fix my CPAN installation?

In reply to Fixing my CPAN installation by IoIxD

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