On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:54:14AM -0700, Ed Morrison enlightened us:
> >On 23/06/06, Ed Morrison <edward.morrison@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I've hosed my CPAN installation and need to get CPAN.pm back.   What do
> >I
> >> need to install via yum to get it back?
> >
> >[wmcdonald@willspc ~]$ rpm -qf `slocate CPAN.pm`
> >perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4
> >
> >Will.
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> Hi Will:
>
> Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately that is not working for me:
>
> [root@mcn ~]# rpm -qf `slocate CPAN.pm` perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4
> error: file perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4: No such file or directory
>
>
> Although Perl-5.8.5-24 is installed:
> [root@mcn ~]# rpm -q perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4
> perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4
>
> Any other thoughts?
>

Yes, the command was merely "rpm -qf `slocate CPAN.pm`" and the answer was
that file is in the perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4.

The unspoken suggestion was to reinstall that RPM.

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