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First let's make sure your kit is complete. Checking...
Looks good...

*** WHOA THERE!!! ***

This is an UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT release.

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You can see this message when you trying to install perl itself, not CPAN package. Are you sure you have perl-5.13.9 installed? It seems rather unusual for hosting to install development version of perl released less than one month ago. Could you give us more information how did you get that message. Also output of: perl -v and which perl would be of interest.

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Re^2: Odd version of perl
by natol44 (Sexton) on Feb 17, 2011 at 14:19 UTC
    Thanks for your replies, here is what is happening

    In fact the installed release is 5.8.8! What happened when I tried to install (using cpan) File::Find is that cpan itself tries to compile Perl 5.13.9. "It's most likely a dependency of the current version of File::Find" said the datacenter support. And "This isn't something we can troubleshoot."

    So what to do? File::Find cannot be installed? Or an older release but is that possible thru cpan?

    Thanks!

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      You already have File::Find, as it comes with every version of Perl. There is no need to upgrade it separately from Perl.

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