With this change, CPAN prints dozens of error messages about failed locale setting to the screen. However, I was able to upgrade from CPAN v. 1.61 to 1.70 when I tried a install Bundle::CPAN It still had some problems. Thanks Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 20:56, Jack Bowling wrote: > ** Reply to message from "Kade P. Cole" <kcole@xxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 08 Apr 2003 12:45:44 -0700 (PDT) > > > Anyone having problems with installing Perl Modules. I am > > having a lot of problems getting them to compile and > > install. I have tried using CPAN and downloading the > > source. Either way they fail. Most fail complaining about > > the Makefile being wrong. Any help or suggestions? > > Yep. Known issue. All due to Unicode. You have a couple of choices but the easiest one is to edit your /etc/sysconfig/i18n to the following: > > LANG="en_US.en" > SUPPORTED="en_US.en" > SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" > LC_COLLATE="C" > > and then try it again. Should work. > > jb -- Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html