I'm moving from cpan to cpanplus to install modules because sometimes I need to for specific versions. While:
cpanp -i Compress-Zlib-1.42

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works, I need to use it via
perl -MCPANPLUS -e "..."

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I've gotten:
perl -MCPANPLUS -e "install(Compress::Zlib)"

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to work, for example, but I've been unable to get anything with versions involved to also work.
[build@build ~]$ perl -MCPANPLUS -e "install(Compress-Zlib-1.42)"

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ERROR No such module '-1.42' 
[build@build ~]$ perl -MCPANPLUS -e "install(Compress-Zlib)"

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ERROR No module specified!

According to the documentation, specifying the author path should work: 
[build@build ~]$ perl -MCPANPLUS -e 'install(/P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-
+1.42)'

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Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "/P/PM" (Missing operator before PM?)

Anyone know how I can do this? Thanks!

In reply to CPANPLUS with versioned Modules by mishikal

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