[CentOS] Hosed CPAN installation on CNT4.x

Fri Jun 23 15:29:58 UTC 2006
Ed Morrison <edward.morrison at gmail.com>

On 6/23/06, Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.
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> >
> > 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.
>
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> Matt Hyclak
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Thank you for speaking the suggestion.  I'm just a little slow this
morning......ok not just this morning....;-)
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