The dilemma, is creating an offline CPAN archive. The solution was found here, and I tracked down the script, read the docs, and tried the script. it failed to run; the specifics are further down.
I fear installing 5.10, and putting at jeopardy, 15(?) years of Perl scripts. Some of which took many days of crafting to get one technique to work (and the considerable expertise I needed from the monks present here). Are there any words of guidance and caution about the transition from 8 to 10 to be found in the myriad manuscripts here in the monastery library???
Results follow:
As it turns out, my Perl install needed a number of upgrades; with a attempted to fix with cpan[1]> upgrade.Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/loca +l/share/perl/5.8.8/Scalar/Util.pm line 30. is only avaliable with the XS version at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/ +Exporter/Heavy.pm line 178 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Compr +ess/Zlib.pm line 9. Compilation failed in require at ./fetchCPAN.pl line 31.
But, after running "upgrade", the code still fails to run with the same errors!! There are parts that I will never be able to upgrade!! This is because the upgrades exist in 5.10, and not 5.8. After running "upgrade" 3 times (with the same result) I 'grep'ed the result and found this plus more (messed up with special characters). The first is the full message, the others are the 1st line from like entries
Running install for module 'B' The most recent version "1.17" of the module "B" is part of the perl-5.10.0 distribution. To install that, you need to +run force install B --or-- install R/RG/RGARCIA/perl-5.10.0.tar.gz ----ditto-- The most recent version "0.02" of the module "DBM_Filter" The most recent version "0.02" of the module "less" The most recent version "0.04" of the module "PerlIO::via" The most recent version "0.05" of the module "PerlIO::scalar" The most recent version "0.07" of the module "Hash::Util" The most recent version "0.08" of the module "attributes" The most recent version "0.08" of the module "re" The most recent version "0.10" of the module "PerlIO::encoding" The most recent version "0.12" of the module "XS::APItest" The most recent version "0.25" of the module "Unicode::UCD" The most recent version "0.74" of the module "B::Concise" The most recent version "0.83" of the module "B::Deparse" The most recent version "1.01" of the module "DirHandle" The most recent version "1.02" of the module "filetest" The most recent version "1.03" of the module "bytes" The most recent version "1.03" of the module "Term::ReadLine" The most recent version "1.03" of the module "Time::gmtime" The most recent version "1.04" of the module "English" The most recent version "1.04" of the module "sigtrap" The most recent version "1.04" of the module "strict" The most recent version "1.04" of the module "UNIVERSAL" The most recent version "1.05" of the module "B::Terse" The most recent version "1.05" of the module "Fatal" The most recent version "1.06" of the module "autouse" The most recent version "1.06" of the module "charnames" The most recent version "1.06" of the module "Fcntl" The most recent version "1.06" of the module "File::Glob" The most recent version "1.06" of the module "open" The most recent version "1.06" of the module "overload" The most recent version "1.06" of the module "SDBM_File" The most recent version "1.06" of the module "warnings" The most recent version "1.07" of the module "FileCache" The most recent version "1.07" of the module "NDBM_File" The most recent version "1.07" of the module "ODBM_File" The most recent version "1.07" of the module "utf8" The most recent version "1.08" of the module "Carp" The most recent version "1.08" of the module "Pod::Html" The most recent version "1.1005" of the module "File::Compare" The most recent version "1.11" of the module "Opcode" The most recent version "1.12" of the module "File::Find" The most recent version "1.13" of the module "POSIX" The most recent version "1.17" of the module "B" The most recent version "1.17" of the module "diagnostics" The most recent version "1.1" of the module "Benchmark" The most recent version "1.1" of the module "Tie::Memoize" The most recent version "1.49" of the module "FindBin" The most recent version "1.80" of the module "Socket" The most recent version "2.01" of the module "sort" The most recent version "2.11" of the module "File::Copy" The most recent version "2.76" of the module "File::Basename" The most recent version "3.02" of the module "Thread" The most recent version "3.26" of the module "Text::ParseWords"
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