Ok, I went with your suggestion. My cpan shell did something a little different though, so I'll post the output in case it helps someone else in the future:

$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
Password:
Terminal does not support AddHistory.

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9402)
Enter 'h' for help.



cpan[1]> look XML::LibXML
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.20)
Going to read '/Users/me/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:46:34 GMT
Running look for module 'XML::LibXML'

Trying to open a subshell in the build directory...
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.70)
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.47)
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.02)
Checksum for /Users/me/.cpan/sources/authors/id/P/PA/PAJAS/XML-LibXML-
+1.70.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /Users/me/.cpan/build for sizes
......................................................................
+......DONE
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.52)
XML-LibXML-1.70/
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/DOM.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Reader.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/InputCallback.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/Builder.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/Parser.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/Builder.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/Generator.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Common.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/XPathExpression.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Parser.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Text.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/RegExp.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/ErrNo.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Document.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/CDATASection.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Reader.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Comment.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Number.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Node.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/XPathContext.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Boolean.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Schema.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Namespace.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/ErrNo.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/PI.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Error.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Dtd.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Common.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Error.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/NodeList.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/DocumentFragment.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/XPathContext.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Attr.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/RelaxNG.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Literal.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Element.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Pattern.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/Changes
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/test.html
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/complex/
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/complex/dtd/
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/complex/dtd/g.dtd
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/complex/dtd/f.dtd
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/complex/complex2.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/complex/complex.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/complex/complex.dtd
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/test.dtd
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/article_internal_bad.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/dtd.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/utf-16-1.html
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/enc2_latin2.html
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/ns.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/article_external_bad.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/xmlns/
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/xmlns/badguy.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/xmlns/goodguy.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/article.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/xmllibxmldocs.pl
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/test4.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/enc_latin2.html
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/test3.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/ext_ent.dtd
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/article_internal.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/catalog.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/xpath.pl
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/utf-16-2.html
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/cb_example.pl
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/test.xhtml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/test.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/bad.dtd
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/bad.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/article_bad.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/dromeds.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/test2.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/example/utf-16-2.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/schema/
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/schema/demo.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/schema/badschema.xsd
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/schema/schema.xsd
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/schema/invaliddemo.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/relaxng/
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/relaxng/invaliddemo.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/relaxng/demo.rng
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/relaxng/badschema.rng
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/relaxng/demo.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/relaxng/schema.rng
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/relaxng/demo3.rng
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/relaxng/demo2.rng
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/relaxng/demo4.rng
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/xinclude/
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/xinclude/xinclude.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/xinclude/entity.txt
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/xinclude/test.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/textReader/
XML-LibXML-1.70/test/textReader/countries.xml
XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/
XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/rules
XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/copyright
XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/libxml-libxml-perl.postinst
XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/control
XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/libxml-libxml-perl.install
XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/changelog
XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/libxml-libxml-perl.examples
XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/libxml-libxml-perl.docs
XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/libxml-libxml-perl.prerm
XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/compat
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/25relaxng.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/40reader.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/32xpc_variables.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/10ns.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/14sax.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/06elements.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/20extras.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/04node.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/03doc.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/18docfree.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/07dtd.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/45regex.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/24c14n.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/23rawfunctions.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/12html.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/19encoding.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/11memory.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/43options.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/27new_callbacks_simple.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/01basic.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/80registryleak.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/17callbacks.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/26schema.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/61error.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/44extent.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/13dtd.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/21catalog.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/30xpathcontext.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/16docnodes.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/08findnodes.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/42common.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/31xpc_functions.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/60struct_error.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/41xinclude.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/02parse.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/05text.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/15nodelist.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/28new_callbacks_multiple.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/90threads.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/09xpath.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/29id.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/xpath.c
XML-LibXML-1.70/ppport.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/xpath.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/README
XML-LibXML-1.70/perl-libxml-sax.c
XML-LibXML-1.70/dom.c
XML-LibXML-1.70/LibXML.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/LibXML.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/perl-libxml-sax.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/Makefile.PL
XML-LibXML-1.70/perl-libxml-mm.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/Av_CharPtrPtr.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/MANIFEST
XML-LibXML-1.70/TODO
XML-LibXML-1.70/typemap
XML-LibXML-1.70/xpathcontext.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/Av_CharPtrPtr.c
XML-LibXML-1.70/dom.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/docs/
XML-LibXML-1.70/docs/libxml.dbk
XML-LibXML-1.70/LICENSE
XML-LibXML-1.70/perl-libxml-mm.c
XML-LibXML-1.70/LibXML.xs
XML-LibXML-1.70/META.yml
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22)
Working directory is /Users/me/.cpan/build/XML-LibXML-1.70-G6_WV2

my-computer:~/.cpan/build/XML-LibXML-1.70-G6_WV2 root#

[download]

I got a complicated prompt ending in 'root#' instead of a 'shell>' prompt. At the 'root#' prompt, I typed in your commands, and now both XML::LibXML and XML::Simple work again. After I was done, I typed 'exit' got me out of the 'root#' prompt and back to the cpan prompt, and typing 'q' exits the cpan prompt.

Thanks.

In reply to Re^2: XML::Simple problems by 7stud
in thread XML::Simple problems by 7stud

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