CPAN r always reports old versions

2003-02-25 Thread Lorin Rivers
When I run r in CPAN, it always reports old versions, even after I do force install 'something'. I'm using fink and perl5.8 on 10.2.4. -- Lorin Rivers Marketing Professional mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/lrivers 512.478.8114

Re: CPAN r always reports old versions

2003-02-25 Thread Ken Williams
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 11:10 AM, Lorin Rivers wrote: When I run r in CPAN, it always reports old versions, even after I do force install 'something'. I'm using fink and perl5.8 on 10.2.4. It's probably installing to a location that's not in @INC. Compare the place it tells you it's

Re: CPAN r always reports old versions

2003-02-25 Thread Lorin Rivers
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 05:11 PM, Ken Williams wrote: On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 11:10 AM, Lorin Rivers wrote: When I run r in CPAN, it always reports old versions, even after I do force install 'something'. I'm using fink and perl5.8 on 10.2.4. It's probably installing to a

Re: CPAN r always reports old versions

2003-02-25 Thread Ken Williams
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 06:19 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote: On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 05:11 PM, Ken Williams wrote: On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 11:10 AM, Lorin Rivers wrote: When I run r in CPAN, it always reports old versions, even after I do force install 'something'. I'm

Re: CPAN r always reports old versions

2003-02-25 Thread Lorin Rivers
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 06:31 PM, Ken Williams wrote: You watch the screen when it installs a module, and look at what path it says it's installing it to. There are other ways to try to figure it out, involving poking around in config files and so on, but under certain conditions

Re: CPAN r always reports old versions

2003-02-25 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 09:40 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote: It looks as if there's perl stuff in both /Library/Perl/darwin and /System/Library/Perl/darwin The latter seems to include the outdated things CPAN reports, but CPAN installs stuff into the former. How do I fix things? There's

Re: CPAN r always reports old versions

2003-02-25 Thread Ken Williams
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 08:57 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: When you install a CPAN module that's an upgrade to a core module, it warns you about this issue, and explains how to avoid the problem you're having - use the UNINST=1 option when you run Makefile.PL. I think the UNINST=1 option