Re^2: Broken cpan


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Re^2: Broken cpan

by halfcountplus (Hermit)

on Apr 22, 2014 at 17:11 UTC ( [id://1083202]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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This may well have fixed it (but see my comment to marto's answer). I'm suspicious because the version difference was only from 2.120351 to 2.125 -- but OTOH, this was one of the modules with overlap in the two `/usr/local` directories; 2.125 had been installed (presumably by a previous upgrade) but the older one was taking precedence.

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Re^3: Broken cpan
by tobyink (Canon) on Apr 22, 2014 at 18:16 UTC

If I were you, what I'd do, is now that the system Perl is in a reasonable state; use that to install App::perlbrew; use perlbrew to install a fresh copy of Perl in my home directory; and use that fresh copy of Perl for any serious work.

There is a popular school of thought that you should touch the version of Perl that was pre-installed with your system as little as possible, because upgrading modules might break your system. (Lots of Linux distributions' admin scripts, package managers, etc are written in Perl.)

use Moops; class Cow :rw { has name => (default => 'Ermintrude') }; say Cow->new->name

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