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Re: apt-get vs perl -MCPAN -e shell



On 29/09/02 will trillich did speaketh:

> i ran into a versioning speedbump when setting up an apache
> server (on potato) with HTML::Mason -- the latter was from
> 
> 	apt-get install libhtml-mason-perl
> 
> and was only version 0.72; i then tried
> 
> 	perl -MCPAN -e shell
> 
> and -- silly me -- i did the "install Bundle::CPAN" as suggested
> to get the new update, and now i've got perl 5.8!
> 
> what's the recommended fix to ensure perl consistency? (i'd bet
> that retrograding back to 5.003_05 would be the best bet -- or
> is it?)

    Don't use the CPAN module. It's corrupted many perl installs on me. apt
and the pre-packaged modules are far better. 

    Mike

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