Term::ReadLine::GNU problem

[Art Werschulz]

Hi.

This problem has been plaguing me for a while now.

We're running Fedora Core 4 on a bunch of i686 boxes. On exactly one of
these, Term::ReadLine::GNU is broken:

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
Cannot do `initialize' in Term::ReadLine::Gnu at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/CPAN.pm line 105

We're running version 5.8.6 of Perl, found in the RPM perl-5.8.6-22.

Does anybody know why this is happening, and how to fix it? Note that I
can't use the CPAN shell to fix anything (i.e., to reinstall the module).

Thanks.