in reply to using CPAN to install against older PERL

You can tell the CPAN module not to follow prerequisites, or to follow them only with your approval. Unfortunately Bundle::libnet has a long list of dependencies. I don't know which one of them would cause a load of 5.8.

It might be helpful to make a local mirror of CPAN and put that in your urllist, so that you won't have to have Net::FTP to get going.

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Re: Re: using CPAN to install against older PERL
by crouchingpenguin (Priest) on Mar 15, 2003 at 15:17 UTC

    If I am not mistaken, the Socket and IO::Socket modules are the 5.8 dependencies.


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