Re: Downgrading from newer CPAN module?

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 07:34:28AM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> >>>>> 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

It's handy to keep http://backpan.cpan.org at the end of the list of urls in 
your cpan config.

Tim.

> 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
> 
>