in reply to Where is Symbol.pm?

That looks like a serious problem (Symbol.pm has been core since 5.00307). Either you have a very very old perl, old enough to be full of serious bugs, or your installation is very very broken, in either case I would look to see if there is a different perl installed on the machine, and/or ask the sysadmin to provide you with a more modern perl (5.6 and up).

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
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