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in thread Obtaining perl-5.6.2 for modern Ubuntu

from App::perlbrew:

perlbrew install-patchperl; perlbrew install perl-5.6.2

works for me (EDIT: Failed 3 test scripts out of 359, 99.16% okay.)

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Re^4: Obtaining perl-5.6.2 for modern Ubuntu
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Mar 20, 2020 at 12:17 UTC
    Thanks - though not exactly my idea of baby steps ;-)
    Having installed App::perbrew, curl, and perlbrew, when I run: 
    perlbrew install perl-5.6.2

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    it tries to download http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RG/RGARCIA/perl-5.6.2.tar.gz.
    But my ISP won't allow downloads via http of more than 1015 bytes.
    How do I tell perlbrew to download https://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RG/RGARCIA/perl-5.6.2.tar.gz instead ?

    As I mentioned, I already have perl-5.6.2.tar.gz so an alternative would be to grab the source from the local directory.

    EDIT: Failed 3 test scripts out of 359, 99.16% okay.

    If I can just get make install to work then that'll probly be good enough for me ;-)
    I'll see if I can work out how to get it to find the source ... might take me 2 minutes; might take me 2 hours ...

    Update: Heh, I found the following gem in the perlbrew --help documentation: 
        PERLBREW_CPAN_MIRROR
        The CPAN mirror url of your choice. The default value is
        "http://www.cpan.org"

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    No mention of how to alter the default, presumably because that could have been useful information.
    I checked echo $PERLBREW_CPAN_MIRROR only to find it was empty, and I walked away uttering strings of expletives - which is my usual mode of behaviour.
    About half an hour later, it occurred to me that maybe I should try setting the PERLBREW_CPAN_MIRROR env var to https://www.cpan.org just in case it might have the desired effect ... and it did !!
    This is just typical of unfamiliar tools - they're documentation never tells you what you need to know ;-)
    And therein lies my reticence to use them.

    Anyway - it still hasn't given me a perl-5.6.2 installation.
    More of that later as I follow it up.

    Next Update: 2 of the tests failed during make test, but running cd /home/sisyphus/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.6.2/perl-5.6.2; make install takes care of that and I now have a (hopefully) usable perl-5.6.2 installation.
    As always, thanks guys !!!

    Cheers,
    Rob
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        if and when it fails tests perlbrew will tell you how to force install

        Yeah ... I didn't mention this in the above rambling rant, but when it first failed to install (because of the test failures) I noticed the following advice at the end of the messages: 
        Generally, if you need to install a perl distribution known to have mi
+nor test
failures, do one of these commands to avoid seeing this message:

  perlbrew --notest install perl-5.6.2
  perlbrew --force install perl-5.6.2

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        So, I re-ran the command with --force but it still failed in exactly the same way.
        Then I noticed another message higher up: 
        If some perl tests failed and you still want to install this distribut
+ion anyway,
do:

  (cd /home/sisyphus/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.6.2/perl-5.6.2; make 
+install)

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        So I did that, and it installed that build of perl-5.6.2 just fine.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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