CPAN Install

peschkaj has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have recently built a FreeBSD box and placed Perl 5.6.1 on it (it came with 5.00something). But now, whenever I go to configure and bring my CPAN up to date, it is attempting to install 5.8.0. I'm fairly certain that I am doing something foolish here.

If I wish to keep my version of perl intact, but bring my modules up to date, what are some tricks I can use?

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Re: CPAN Install by bart (Canon) on Aug 26, 2002 at 12:15 UTC
But now, whenever I go to configure and bring my CPAN up to date, it is attempting to install 5.8.0. I'm fairly certain that I am doing something foolish here. No, it's not you. Older versions of CPAN did that. Newer versions don't any more. What I last did was, from within the CPAN shell, is try to update CPAN in the manner it suggests. As soon as it tries to build Perl 5.8.0, I interrupt it by pressing ctrl-C (twice?). Despite the interruption, CPAN now is updated. So it shouldn't try this stupid trick any more. You can notice because now you have a command line history buffer at your disposal. Actually, I don't see what you are doing differently than me.	[reply]
Re: CPAN Install (take a gander at CPANPLUS) by ybiC (Prior) on Aug 26, 2002 at 19:41 UTC
Brother peschkaj, It may be worth your time to try CPANPLUS instead of CPAN. Having rebuilt one of my Debian boxen recently, I found that CPANPLUS worked flawlessly for refitting the ~50 perl modules that I often employ, and that's from behind a Squid proxy. I never had any luck getting the original CPAN module to work from behind a proxy. 8^( There's even an introduction at "Perl Module administration with CPANPLUS" right here in the Monastry I suspect that manually installing the following modules before CPANPLUS may have helped it go so smoothly for me. Compress::Zlib Archive::Tar Archive::Zip Test::Harness Test::Simple Storable IPC::Run MailTools File::Temp Term::Size And like any good monk, you doubtless already know that ritual: Fetch and extract the module tarball perl Makedfile.PL make make test make install cheers, Don striving toward Perl Adept (it's pronounced "why-bick")	[reply]