perl on fedora?

[Mike Wright]

Hi all,

Very confused here.

I'm trying to install a perl module without any luck.  Isn't this stuff 
supposed to work out of the gate?  Is there some sort of fedora / yum 
way to to this?  Basic instructions for perl either return nothing or a 
failure message.

perl -Mcpan -e shell

Can't locate cpan.pm in @INC
(@INC contains: 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
.).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

locate cpan.pm

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/LWP/Protocol/cpan.pm

I tried copying cpan.pm to one of the above listed paths and the error 
remains.

I haven't mucked with the perl installation in any way whatsoever.  Is 
there some magic needed to use it?

Thanks for any help,
Mike Wright