On May 29, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Bruce Van Allen wrote:
On 5/29/04 Timothy Bailey wrote:
(Trying "install Bundle::libnet", among other things, attempted an install of Perl 5.8.4 - I'm not certain if it was successful, but I
Oh, there's a hint. There was a version of CPAN.pm in early Jaguar that would force an install of the latest Perl.
Every Jaguar, not just early ones, shipped with Perl 5.6.0 and its broken CPAN.pm.
the immediate solution was to install a newer CPAN (but not Bundle::CPAN). Search this list -- lots of talk over a year ago...
That was, is, and will continue to be the correct solution unless Apple decides to update some future version of Jaguar to a newer Perl - which isn't going to happen.
Download the current CPAN.pm from <http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/CPAN/CPAN-1.76.tar.gz>, and unpack and install it manually.
Could you reinstall your system, maybe upgraded to later Jaguar, and get
a later version of the Developer Tools?
Pointless. Any Jaguar will automagically update itself to the latest 10.2.x revision through Software Update, and the Dec. '02 dev tools are the latest for Jaguar.
And if you want a later version
of Perl, DO NOT replace the system's Perl -- again, search this list for
discussion.
Better still, read the instructions that come with Perl, especially the readme.macosx, which is primarily a summary of those past discussions.
sherm--
