Re: cpan and older perls

May I suggest you update CPAN (the module) to a version that doesn't have the bug of trying to upgrade perl itself?

Also, you may get better help if you say what module it is that you are trying to install.

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Re^2: cpan and older perls by kscaldef (Pilgrim) on Jun 16, 2005 at 17:15 UTC
Thank you! I've run in to this problem myself on an older Mac that shipped with 5.6. I tried to install LWP and went down a twisty rabbit hole that led to trying to install Perl 5.8.7. For some reason it didn't occur to me to try upgrading CPAN first. (Silly of me in retrospect, but...).	[reply]
Re^2: cpan and older perls by kscaldef (Pilgrim) on Jun 16, 2005 at 17:28 UTC
Oops... maybe not. Trying to upgrade CPAN also sends me down a dependency chain that leads to trying to upgrade Perl. /me is not amused.	[reply]
Re^3: cpan and older perls by ysth (Canon) on Jun 16, 2005 at 18:24 UTC
Yuck; do you know what the dependency chain that caused that was? Did you try upgrading CPAN not using CPAN (i.e. with perl Makefile.PL; make test install)?	[reply]