Can't locate CPAN.pm in @INC

[Pradeep Mishra]

hi all

I have been trying to install spamassin using ...perl -MCPAN -e shell
which throws an error

Can't locate CPAN.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
[root@mx01 ~]#

Tried to search for CPAN.pm but is not found.

perl version is
[root@mx01 ~]# perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

packages installed
[root@mx01 ~]# rpm -qa | grep perl
perl-devel-5.8.8-32.fc8
perl-libs-5.8.8-32.fc8
perl-String-CRC32-1.4-3.fc8
perl-5.8.8-32.fc8
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30-32.fc8
groff-perl-1.18.1.4-10.fc8
perl-DBI-1.58-2.fc8
perl-Test-Harness-2.56-32.fc8
perl-DBD-MySQL-4.005-2.fc8.1
perl-ExtUtils-Embed-1.26-32.fc8
[root@mx01 ~]#

Would appreciate if some one can help me solve this issue.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

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[Pradeep Mishra]

thanks adrano.
you are correct. have installed perl-cpan. it is resolved now.

thanks again,

On Feb 1, 2008 8:17 AM, Adriano Ferreira <a.r.fe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 2008 10:47 AM, Pradeep Mishra <pradeep....@gmail.com>

> It looks like you need to install a rpm package which should probably
> be named perl-CPAN or something like that. Your current system does
> not have CPAN installed or have used some weird path perl is not
> looking at.

[Adriano Ferreira]

On Feb 1, 2008 10:47 AM, Pradeep Mishra <pradeep....@gmail.com> wrote:

It looks like you need to install a rpm package which should probably

be named perl-CPAN or something like that. Your current system does
not have CPAN installed or have used some weird path perl is not
looking at.

>