How to update CPAN perl module

Question

I'm trying to install some perl module but everytime this message is shown

  New CPAN.pm version (v2.00) available.
  [Currently running version is v1.960001]
  You might want to try
    install CPAN
    reload cpan
  to both upgrade CPAN.pm and run the new version without leaving
  the current session.

I've tried to do

install CPAN
reload cpan

With

pi@raspbmc:~$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
Terminal does not support AddHistory.

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.960001)
Enter 'h' for help.

cpan[1]> install CPAN

But the result is

Going to read '/root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz'
............................................................................DONE
Going to read '/root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz'
  Database was generated on Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:41:06 GMT
  HTTP::Date not available
  ..............
  New CPAN.pm version (v2.00) available.
  [Currently running version is v1.960001]
  You might want to try
    install CPAN
    reload cpan
  to both upgrade CPAN.pm and run the new version without leaving
  the current session.


...............pi@raspbmc:~$ 

The version is still 1.960001.

Answer 1

1. download CPAN module from this page http://metacpan.org/pod/CPAN

2. untar it (tar zxf CPAN-2.00.tar.gz), cd into the directory and run

   perl Makefile.PL
   make test
   sudo make install
   

edit: if it breaks making a path with :: in it then perhaps your filesystem type does not support these characters in a filename

To see the filesystem type, run mount without any parameters and all the mounted filesystems with their types will be shown

The error Can't write-open blib/man3/CPAN::Admin.3pm seems to suggest a filesystem problem, but ext4 in rw mode sounds alright. Try this from the CPAN-2.00 directory

perl -e 'open($f,">blib/man3/CPAN::thisisatest") || die $!;'

Answer 2

The following procedure

1. kuz1@banana:~$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
2. cpan[1]> install CPAN
3. cpan[2]> reload cpan

works for me on the BANANA Pi Single-Board Computer with Ubuntu 14.04.