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Yes, first update CPAN.pm. The newer CPAN.pm's do not try to update Perl.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Re: How to prevent CPAN from updating Perl
by Indomitus (Scribe) on Sep 21, 2001 at 19:37 UTC
    Do you happen to know which version and above don't try to update Perl? Thanks.

      The most recent version avilable on CPAN is 1.59. I wouldn't recommend doing a piecewise upgrade: just get the most recent version available.

      HTH

Re: Re: How to prevent CPAN from updating Perl
by coolmichael (Deacon) on Sep 21, 2001 at 21:48 UTC
    Thank you merlin. I tried that, but installing the new CPAN.pm also tried to install the new perl. Does this mean I'll have to do that by hand?

    Michael

      Try hitting Ctrl-c when it begins to download the new perl. You might get an error message or two, but it should continue on with the module install (w/o upgrading perl itself).

      -Blake

        I know this thread was some time ago, but that didn't work for me... no matter how I tried, it either caught the SIGINT or terminated CPAN altogether. However, instead of doing install Bundle::CPAN, it worked to just do install CPAN, then reload CPAN (this is from within the shell). Then I could install the whole Bundle::CPAN without the default installing perl thingy. I will however upgrade perl later, but I thought it could wait a few days since I have v5.6.0.

        Just thought I'd post this in case someone else has the same problem as me. :)


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