[ic] Help with IC setup and CPAN

Jason Kohles interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 10:29:00 2002


On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:35:47PM +0100, Joachim Leidinger wrote:
> Jason Kohles wrote:
> 
> Thanks you!
> I've tried that and after some problems (03modlist.data.gz was broken),
> I'm in a muddle.
> If I use "force install Bundle::CPAN", cpan module (Version 1.59) it
> fetch perl-5.6.1! Why?

The new CPAN module, rather than install a new perl without asking very
clearly tells you 'I will only do that if you tell me to force it.'  If
you don't want it, don't force it.

> If I use "install Data::Dumper" and I get
> 
Data::Dumper is part of the core, if you don't want a new perl, don't try
and upgrade it.

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