From what I can see there you are running cpan as root and installing it under a local lib /root/perl5. The new cpan executable is is under /root/perl5/bin/. Thats probably not in your path? Also the modules under /root/perl5/lib/perl5 are probably not in your module search path. There is a lot of what your are doing here that is either unsafe or unwise. Before we go into that, could we step back a bit and discus your environment and what you are trying to achieve. Specifically, why you feel the need to upgrade CPAN at a system level? There may be a better way to solve the underlying issue. Cheers, K _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos