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[ILUG] Perl & CPAN

[ILUG] Perl & CPAN

Wesley Darlington wesley at blackstar.co.uk
Thu Sep 21 12:01:27 IST 2000


Hi,

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:43:32AM +0100, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> Trying to "install Bundle::LWP" using CPAN but it tries to download
> perl-5.6.0.tar.gz which is a large 5MB or so file that I have no
> intention of installing. Is there any way of telling it to forget that
> file and just accept whatever perl is installed?

Quite a few packages try to download perl-5.6. Quite annoying.
I just hit ^C and it carries on to the next package. However, I 
don't think I've ever interrupted a download of 5.6, only a
perl Makefile.PL.

Wesley.




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