[ic] CPAN install problems

[Michel Matte]

Whatever I try, the CPAN always fails in the test  phase. I reformatted
twice with Red Hat 7.1.  I use defaults all the way to install CPAN.  I
notice that it tries to create Perl-5.6.1 in /root/.cpan/build  but the
current version on the server is Perl-5.6.0. When I try to start
Interchange it's missing the usual modules: Safe::Hole, SQL::Statement,
Bundle::LWP.

This damn thing runs for half an hour asking everything in the system
but doing nothing.  Looks like Microsoft...