Re: Downgrading from newer CPAN module?

[email protected] ((Andreas J. Koenig))
Newsgroups perl.cpan.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:43:53 -0500, Andy Lester <[email protected]> said:

  > On Jun 21, 2006, at 12:50 PM, [email protected] wrote:

 >> I have never had to do this before, but I need to downgrade a CPAN
 >> module. I have found that the new module is causing glibc errors with
 >> double linked lists, and I need to put it back to teh original
 >> version.
 >> I tried to copy the pm and directory from the /usr/lib directory and
 >> move back into place, but no luck.

  > Manually download the tarball from search.cpan.org.  Install the old
  > one manually.

Or, if the old distro is still on CPAN and you want to use the CPAN
shell, you can

    install AUTHOR/Distro-3.14.tar.gz

e.g.

    install MLEHMANN/Video-Capture-V4l-0.9.tar.gz

To find out the exact name of the distro, you can use the ls command

-- 
andreas
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