[Koha] A Little Help with Perl/CPAN

I'm brand new with Koha and am having trouble with Perl/CPAN; attempting installation of Business::ISBN (among others, frankly I am no fan of Perl) Executing with cpan install Business::ISBN results in Reading '/root/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:41

Re: [Koha] A Little Help with Perl/CPAN

Sorry, forgot to include all the specs: Slackware 14.0 64-bit, Kernel 3.2.29 SMP, Perl 5, version 16, subversion 1 (v5.16.1) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi, cpan version 1.57 calling Getopt::Std::getopts (version 1.07 [paranoid]), running under Perl version 5.16.1. Thanks. A riddle, wra