exactly, I don't need it as I am running perl 5.8.5, this is what I don't understand... This message displayed before I installed 5.8.8. via cpan Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Tom wrote: >>> What do you mean exactly with "cannot install or upgrade any perl >>> modules"? Can you give us an error message? >> Yes... below >> >> The most recent version "3.24" of the module "Text::ParseWords" >> is part of the perl-5.8.8 distribution. To install that, you need to run >> force install Text::ParseWords --or-- >> install N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.8.tar.gz >> The most recent version "3.24" of the module "Text::ParseWords" >> is part of the perl-5.8.8 distribution. To install that, you need to run >> force install Text::ParseWords --or-- >> install N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.8.tar.gz > > Oh, sorry. I thought you were trying to install perl modules via yum. > > Do you really *need* 3.24 of Text::Parsewords? 3.22 is contained in the > perl package of CentOS. > > Ralph > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos