in reply to cpan: unable to install modules

Don't use find, use
perldoc -l CPAN

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or 
perl -MCPAN -le"print $INC{'CPAN.pm'}"

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Also, try using cpanp instead

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Re^2: cpan: unable to install modules
by 7stud (Deacon) on Nov 11, 2009 at 06:29 UTC

    Here are my results:

    $ perldoc -l CPAN
/usr/local/bin/CPAN

$ perl -MCPAN -le"print $INC{'CPAN.pm'}"
syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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[d/l]
      See perlrun, you need to quote according to your shell's rules
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