Hi All,

thanx for the suggestions. I got as far as this now, after changing things as 1st suggested by Corion,

Fetching with LWP:
  http://mirrors.playboy.com/CPAN/authors/id/P/PM/PMQS/CHECKSUMS
'glob' trapped by operation mask at (eval 82) line 1.
 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 4266
        CPAN::Distribution::MD5_check_file('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x
+a77a4a0)', '/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/P/PM/PMQS/CHECKSUMS') call
+ed at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 4247
        CPAN::Distribution::verifyMD5('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0xa77a4
+a0)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 3895
        CPAN::Distribution::get('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0xa77a4a0)') 
+called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 4464
        CPAN::Distribution::make('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0xa77a4a0)')
+ called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 4704
        CPAN::Distribution::test('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0xa77a4a0)')
+ called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 4809
        CPAN::Distribution::install('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0xa77a4a0
+)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 5496
        CPAN::Module::rematein('CPAN::Module=HASH(0xa3513b0)', 'instal
+l') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 5560
        CPAN::Module::install('CPAN::Module=HASH(0xa3513b0)') called a
+t /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 5095
        CPAN::Bundle::rematein('CPAN::Bundle=HASH(0xb7ac3768)', 'insta
+ll') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 5177
        CPAN::Bundle::install('CPAN::Bundle=HASH(0xb7ac3768)') called 
+at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 2138
        CPAN::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell', 'install', 'Bundle::CPAN'
+) called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 2165
        CPAN::Shell::install('CPAN::Shell', 'Bundle::CPAN') called at 
+/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 201
        eval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 201
        CPAN::shell() called at /usr/bin/cpan line 193

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I'm a little lost, but, ready to learn how to get this done. Cheers.

coolboarderguy...

In reply to Re^2: Module Install Problems by coolboarderguy
in thread Module Install Problems by coolboarderguy

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