On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Geoffrey Leach <ge...@hughes.net> wrote: > ExtUtils::MakeMaker was previously installed from the Fedora 12 rpm. I > removed it. There was no ExtUtils::Installed. Then I attempted to > install ExtUtils::MakeMaker using the cpan script. It failed as > ExtUtils::Installed.pm was not available. Installing > ExtUtils::Installed failed as ExtUtils::MakeMaker was not available.
ExtUtils::MakeMaker on CPAN ships with ExtUtils::Installed in inc/. It should pick that up and use it if necessary, so even what you describe seems very, very odd. Can you duplicate the behavior and send a transcript of the output? Also, please send your "perl -V" output. Thank you, David