> On May 2, 2024, at 09:01, Bruce Schuck <bsch...@asgard-systems.com> wrote:
> 
>> This is Fedora Linux 40 (the most recent)
> 
> I find it odd that your system *ever* had Finance::Quote installed,

Bruce,

It’s normal for Linux distros to package perl modules. Fedora’s is 
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/perl-Finance-Quote/perl-Finance-Quote/. 
Note that there are back ports of 1.61 for Fedoras 38, 39, and 40. 

They also package cpan as https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/perl-CPAN/.

I suggest that he best course for Fedora users who want to get ahead of their 
distro for selected perl packages is to set up cpan to install to a directory 
in $HOME and use $PERL5LIB to put it at the top of @INC. That avoids contention 
with their package manager and for the most part leaves the dependencies to the 
distro to maintain. For most users a few days of patience will get them 

Debian/Ubuntu also package F::Q 
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libfinance-quote-perl but are 
nowhere near as conscientious about keeping up with your releases so patience 
won’t work for their users. Keeping out of the way of the package manager is 
still a good practice so I think their users should also point cpan at a 
user-space directory.

Regards,
John Ralls
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