SPUG: CPAN question

[Chris Wilkes]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:52:40AM -0800, Peter Darley wrote:
> Friends,
>    Is there any way that I can get CPAN to not try to upgrade my perl
>    5.005 to perl 5.6? I don't have the libs installed to use
>    5.6, but would like to be able to use 'perl -MCAPN -e shell'.
>      Thanks, Peter Darley

Did you get any responses for this question as this has happened to me a
number of times and I've just given up and upgraded.

Poking around on http://groups.google.com I couldn't find an answer
either, but it seems like this behavior happens when you do a 'force
install' of a module.  Maybe that module requires 5.6.x?

You could always just use CPAN to download the module for you and then cd
into the ~/.cpan/build/ directory and compile it up yourself.

Chris

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