On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:54:14AM -0700, Ed Morrison enlightened us: > >On 23/06/06, Ed Morrison <edward.morrison at 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 at willspc ~]$ rpm -qf `slocate CPAN.pm` > >perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4 > > > >Will. > >_______________________________________________ > >CentOS mailing list > >CentOS at centos.org > >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > Hi Will: > > Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately that is not working for me: > > [root at 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 at 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. -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263