Sorry for the late reply. Actually almut has the probable cause of your problems. Especially after all my suggestions turned up negative.

EDIT: A step-by-step recipe of almuts solution:

First find the installed ExtUtils::AutoInstall:

locate ExtUtils/AutoInstall

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or
find /usr/lib -name 'AutoInstall.pm' -print

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This will tell you the location of AutoInstall.pm, probably in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/

Now copy the systemwide AutoInstall.pm to your homedir: 

mkdir ~/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/ExtUtils 
cp <pathtoautoinstall>/AutoInstall.pm ~/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/ExtU
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Edit your copy of AutoInstall.pm. Find the line mentioned by almut (the one with Config{sitelib}) and change it to the newer version.

That's it. You don't need to change PERL5LIB because you already did this when you installed cpan with Zaxos method.

In reply to Re^3: Problems installing Crypt:OpenPGP in local user area by jethro
in thread Problems installing Crypt:OpenPGP in local user area by Popcorn Dave

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