Perl won't update

[mcforum at bellsouth.net]

Installed compat-db-4.5.20-3.fc8 and db4 but still  can't install perl.  Running 
 yum -y upgrade perl.i386
leads to the following--

Running rpm_check_debug
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package perl-devel.i386 4:5.8.8-25.fc8 set to be updated
---> Package perl.i386 4:5.8.8-25.fc8 set to be updated
---> Package perl-Test-Harness.i386 0:2.56-25.fc8 set to be updated
---> Package perl-libs.i386 4:5.8.8-25.fc8 set to be updated
---> Package perl-Test-Simple.i386 0:0.62-25.fc8 set to be updated
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
Package perl-devel needs perl(ExtUtils::Embed), this is not available.
Package perl-devel needs perl(ExtUtils::Installed), this is not available.
Package perl-devel needs perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker), this is not available.
Complete!

These do not even look like rpm dependencies.

TNWestTex