Please show us the output of such a botched cpan session. I think I remember that problem, and it had something to do with installing a bad version of Archive::Tar which didn't extract the distributions properly. - have you changed anything in your setup there?

The other problems I can help only little with - either find a separate machine with the same architecture, on which you can compile the modules and then copy them over, or maybe use CPAN::SQLite, which supposedly has lesser memory requirements.

For your test machine, just compile your own "dev" Perl, a Perl 5.8.8 - that should be all that's needed and that's just a download of perl and

tar xvf ...
sh Configure -Dprefix=/home/silas/perl-5.8.8

[download]

In reply to Re: perl module installs getting really mesed up by Corion
in thread perl module installs getting really mesed up by SilasTheMonk

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