Rainer Duffner wrote: > I tried that, but when run, it just refuses to install Scalar::Util. > When I try with "force", it wants to go ahead and install PERL 5.8.0 ! Tried upgrading CPAN first? perl -MCPAN -e 'install CPAN' (as per http://fsck.com/rtfm/article.html?id=5#60).