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Hi gurus, I'm afraid I don't know a lot about what I'm doing with Perl/CPAN, but essentially, I've got an old Cent5 box that is running perl5.8.8, and I need to install some modules to it, so I can move an existing program to it. The module I'm trying to install is File::Basename. When I run cpan File::Basename, I get:
Now, if I understand the problem (unlikely), it's that CPAN automatically looks for the newest version of any module, rather than the newest module for my current perl. How can I install a version of this module for my current perl, 5.8.8? Or, am I misunderstanding the issue? I tried using the suggested `force install` command, which seems to have installed perl5.28.0 alongside my existing stuff. I've tried searching for solutions to this, but it's hard to know what to search for; I get a lot of results for checking version numbers, etc., but nothing that I can find is about installing old modules into older perl versions. Can someone straighten me out on this, please, and help me learn how to do this properly? Thanks, Benjamin. In reply to Installing modules in old version of perl by JediWombat
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