I just installed cpan via yum and now I cannot do any updating.

$cpan HTML::Template
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[400] message[URL must be absolute]
Fetching with LWP:

http://mirrors.phenominet.com/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::gzopen called
at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 5721.