in reply to v5.12.1 installed via CPAN

For clarification, which OS are you running? Can you remember what you did in cpan which caused this to happen? Did you install either Bundle::CPAN or Bundle::libnet?

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Re^2: v5.12.1 installed via CPAN
by razed (Initiate) on Jun 09, 2010 at 19:22 UTC
    I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. I needed POSIX for a script. Not knowing that it comes with the default install, I opened up CPAN and typed 'install POSIX'. CPAN informed me that it couldn't do so because POSIX is only available for version v5.12.1, and suggested that I install v5.12.1. I had allowed it to auto-accept the defaults, so it went on with downloading and installing while I wasn't looking.
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      Just out of curiosity, I tried 'install POSIX'. I'm using 5.8.8, so it came back at me with

      I'll build that only if you ask for something like
      force install POSIX
      or
      install J/JE/JESSE/perl-5.12.1.tar.gz

      If you didn't enter "force install", it shouldn't have installed it. You can check to see what perl your system is using with perl -v. If the install didn't delete your Policies, then the old perl should come up.
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