You're doing this on your own Perl and not on the Perl that came with Ubuntu, right?

Unfortunately, no. I've been installing everything onto the system Perl, with 'sudo cpan'. I only just heard about local::lib lately and I want to switch to that but I was hoping to fix my system libraries first.

But my plan now is to give up on the system libraries for now, report the install failures I get for 'install Catalyst' and then switch to local::lib library and try a clean Catalyst install. Is it true that with local::lib I can get Perl to ignore all the modules I've installed as root? I'm also a little nervous about whether it will just work with my Epic configuration in Eclipse (which I am also using) or not. Hopefully I will be able to figure it out.

Thanks for the help.