cpan upgrade gone bad

[ihccab]

I've been using CPAN for many years, and never had a problem, but I
connected to CPAN this morning on a new install of RedHat AS 4 to
upgrade and install perl modules. I had many timeouts, and after a
while it finally started "install Bundle::CPAN". But the installation
went bad and did not upgrade the bundle.

Now when I issue "perl -MCPAN -e shell" it complains that it cannot
find Cwd.pm and other *.pm files.

I'm missing many files from my install. How can I repair this? Or,
should I get the whole tar.gz and install to /usr/local? Thanks for
any help.

 

[ihccab]

I've been using CPAN for many years, and never had a problem, but I
connected to CPAN this morning on a new install of RedHat AS 4 to
upgrade and install perl modules. I had many timeouts, and after a
while it finally started "install Bundle::CPAN". But the installation
went bad and did not upgrade the bundle.

Now when I issue "perl -MCPAN -e shell" it complains that it cannot
find Cwd.pm and other *.pm files.

I'm missing many files from my install. How can I repair this? Or,
should I get the whole tar.gz and install to /usr/local? Thanks for
any help.

I solved the problem on my own. I forced an rpm install of the perl
package, and it restored the missing files. Sorry to inconvenience
anyone.