On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:22, Bill Crawford <billcrawford1...@gmail.com> wrote: > If (as recently happened) you discover a dependency chain that leads > to CPAN complaining that you need a newer perl because it's a core > module ... it gets extra annoying.
+1 cpan[1]> install Term::ReadLine The most recent version "1.07" of the module "Term::ReadLine" is part of the perl-5.13.11 distribution. To install that, you need to run force install Term::ReadLine --or-- install F/FL/FLORA/perl-5.13.11.tar.gz Awesome. A development version of perl. Let's see if I can pull in a recent stable perl: cpan[2]> install perl Warning: Cannot install perl, don't know what it is. cpan[3]> install perl-latest Warning: Cannot install perl-latest, don't know what it is. cpan[4]> install perl-stable Warning: Cannot install perl-stable, don't know what it is. cpan[5]> install perl-5.14 Warning: Cannot install perl-5.14, don't know what it is. cpan[6]> install perl-5.12 Warning: Cannot install perl-5.12, don't know what it is. cpan[7]> install perl5.12 Warning: Cannot install perl5.12, don't know what it is. *gives up* "Cannot install perl, don't know what it is." Paul