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 > >
