I am new to Perl and Linux as well. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I was checking CPAN modules & I was able to check the versions of few CPAN modules and one of them didn't return the version for Time::Local I tried to install it manually. After that I ran some cpan command based on some research on internet. I have no idea what happened. It asked me a few questions, I choose defaults and now I am in trouble. When I try to use the per -e 'use FileHandle....command as per doc for any CPAN module, it just returns blank. I know that I have done a mistake somewhere, but not sure what I did not nor what the mistake is. All I want now is for the system to just get back to its normal, and the CPAN thing as how it was with fresh install of Ubuntu. I tried reinstalling perl, but it says perl latest version is there. Don't know how to get the CPAN thing like the way it was with fresh Ubuntu install. Any help will be appreciated. Kishore

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