Hi, I tried to install Cpan, but it won't do anything. This is due to a misconfiguration on my behalf, which seems irreversible. I know that I have posted in the wrong thread, but I cannot find any forums for new people to Cpan. I typed: perl -MCPAN -e install Date/Parse.pm The config script asked me if I was ready to manually configure, to which I answered no, because I thought it easier to automatically configure. I didn't realise that there was no automatic configuration. After this, cpan simply returns exit status 0. I looked in my home dir for cpan folders or config files that I could delete and hence let the config script run again, but there was only .cpan, which I deleted, but made no difference. Does anyone know how to get this working? Regards, Zii. (complete nib when it comes to cpan, and not so good with Perl either)