Can't locate local/lib.pm in @INC at /usr/share/perl/5.14/CPAN/FirstTime.pm

Question

I am trying to use Perl the first time on my system which is Ubuntu 12.04. I have Perl v.5.14.2 installed.
I looked up how to install Perl modules, so I sta

Answer 1

You're missing local::lib, which is what you told CPAN shell to do.

You can install it like so:

sudo apt-get install liblocal-lib-perl

You might be able to start over by rm -rf-ing your ~/.cpan directory. AT YOUR OWN RISK

However, I would recommend trying cpanminus instead of the old CPAN shell.

sudo apt-get install cpanminus