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I think I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how CPAN is supposed to work. I go into CPAN (using perl (5.8.0)) on linux (2.4.20 kernel/Suse81). I use the 'r' command to see what is out of date and see Package namespace installed latest in CPAN file Attribute::Handlers 0.77 0.78 A/AB/ABERGMAN/Attribute-Handlers-0.78.tar.gz ... I issue command "install Attribute::Handlers" -- says it downloads and builds it -- runs tests and everything seems to to ok. But when I run 'r' again, I till see that I have .77 installed. I've tried exit/re-enter, reread index...couple of random things... but (I'm just using Attribute:Handlers as an example since it is first on the list) seems no matter which module I try to install, it will download it -- and if I try the same module it just, already downloaded, built, ...well: $<2>cpan> $<2>install Attribute::Handlers Running install for module Attribute::Handlers Running make for A/AB/ABERGMAN/Attribute-Handlers-0.78.tar.gz Is already unwrapped into directory /share/CPAN/build/Attribute-Handlers-0.78 Has already been processed within this session Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/multi....ok All tests successful. Files=1, Tests=52, 1 wallclock secs ( 0.13 cusr + 0.01 csys = 0.14 CPU) /usr/bin/make test -- OK Running make install Already done ======================= So here is where I'm feeling really clueless. If I just told it to install version .78, and it says it did, why does 'r' come back and say I only have .77 installed? Seems like it should be so obvious....but I'm obviously missing something. Any kind help? Thanks, -lindaThread Next