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Put the fully qualified path in quotes: 
perl -MCPANPLUS -e 'install("/P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.42")'

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Re^2: CPANPLUS with versioned Modules
by mishikal (Novice) on Jun 20, 2007 at 17:29 UTC 
    [root@build .cpanplus]# perl -MCPANPLUS -e 'install("/P/PM/PMQS/Compre
+ss-Zlib-1.42")'
[ERROR] No such module '/P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.42'

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    Still doesn't work. 
    perl -MCPANPLUS -e 'install("Compress::Zlib")'

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    continues to work, but gets the latest version which I need to avoid.
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      Corion found it can be done with CPAN at least: 
      perl -MCPAN -e "install(qq(P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.42.tar.gz))"

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      Thanks!
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