SPUG: CPAN question.

[Ben Reser]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:29:43PM -0700, Douglas Kirkland wrote:
> I am trying to update or add some perl modules through CPAN.  The problem is 
> I do not want to update perl yet.  Everytime I want to add another perl 
> module through CPAN, CPAN want to update perl to 5.6.1.   I have perl 
> 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd.

This is a known bug in the CPAN module itself.  Download the latest copy
of CPAN itself and install it by hand.  Then you should be able to
install things via the CPAN module again.


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