I have a very interesting problem... Our Linux box was rebuilt and Perl was re-installed. I am now trying to install the Perl modules our app needs via CPAN. I was not quite awake when I fired up the CPAN shell as a user instead of as root user. First command I ran was 'install Bundle::CPAN'. But I wasn't in as root user, only as lowly user with limited permissions. I saw a lot of script fly by my eyes, most would test, but none would install because of the limited permissions. D'oh! So I switch to root user, open up CPAN shell, go to run 'install Bundle::CPAN' and, well... 
$ su root
Password:
# perl -MCPAN -e shell
Terminal does not support AddHistory.
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7602)
ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN')
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
Warning: Cannot install Bundle::CPAN, don't know what it is.
Try the command
    i /Bundle::CPAN/

to find objects with matching identifiers.
cpan> i /Bundle::CPAN/
No objects found of any type for argument /Bundle::CPAN/

cpan>

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Huh? Can anyone 'splain why this happened...? I have looked at the Metadata file and it looks ok, but then again I don't know what a *bad* Metadata file would look like. If anyone could shed some light on this I'd really appreciate this!

In reply to Cannot install CPAN (or any other modules) as root user!!! by ARiccela

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