Man, im here to tell ya, nothing ever goes the way I want it when upgrading. Here's the scoop:

I was installing a few modules and CPAN told me there was a new version and to run an upgrade for "Bundle::CPAN" which I did. Well, it appears (which is now known to me) that the bundle actually upgrades perl... I was running 5.005 so I was due to upgrade anyways. Well, it did it's thing which took like an hour in which it installed quite a few modules, and then upgraded perl itself.

The kicker now is that when I try to read the docs on a module, I get an error from perldoc and honestly dont have a clue how to fix this and im getting quite pissed off. Here is the error: 

oakserver:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1# perldoc Net::Telnet
syntax error at warnings.pm line 306, near "{^"
syntax error at warnings.pm line 311, near "{^"
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/perldoc line 5.
oakserver:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1#

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Another "fun" issue is that if I am not in the actual base directory for the modules, and then I run perldoc on something, I get an error as well: 

oakserver:~# perldoc Net::Telnet
Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/
+i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/
+perl5 .) at /usr/local/bin/perldoc line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/perldoc line 5.
oakserver:~#

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Uuhhh... why didnt it change @INC when it did the install? Why is perldoc breaking now overall? Anyone know what the heck I did and how I go about fixing these problems? Im dyin here....

Thanks in advance

-oakley
Embracing insanity - one twitch at a time >:)

In reply to install of perl 5.6.1 and new issues by oakley

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