At 1:26 PM -0500 3/7/2003, Jim Correia wrote:I've never used CPAN before - I've gotten by with the stock modules since I don't do too much perl hacking. But now I've got a script from a third party that needs some modules, so I figured I'd use CPAN to go get them.
So I fired up the cpan shell, answered all the initial questions (with the default answers). It suggested that I upgrade Bundle::libnet, so I took its advice and did so. As I was watching what it was doing, it started downloading perl 5.8.0
The version of CPAN that Apple ships is buggy in this regard.
The first thing I recommend when first working with CPAN is:
cpan> install CPAN cpan> reload cpan
Yes, but would installing perl 5.8 this way actually work?
chris
