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in reply to Install Math::GSL fail

look, or download tarball by hand
cpan>look Math::GSL /root/.cpan/build/Math-GSL-0.22-ZItw13/> ls -l . . . /root/.cpan/build/Math-GSL-0.22-ZItw13/> rm Makefile /root/.cpan/build/Math-GSL-0.22-ZItw13/> perl Makefile.PL