How can I install a specific version of a set of Perl modules?

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Matthew Watson picture Matthew Watson · Nov 4, 2008 · Viewed 52.4k times · Source

I'm tasked with replicating a production environment to create many test/sit environments.

One of the things I need to do is build up Perl, with all the modules which have been installed (including internal and external modules) over the years. I could just use CPAN.pm autobundle, but this will result in the test environment having much newer versions of the external modules that production has.

What is the easiest/best way to get and install (a lot of) version specific Perl modules.

Answer

Schwern picture Schwern · Nov 6, 2008

bdfoy has the best large scale solution, but if you just want to install a few modules you can ask the CPAN shell to install a specific distribution by referencing a path to a tarball (relative to the top of the CPAN tree).

cpan> install MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.62.tar.gz

Throw a URL to BackPAN into your URL list and you can install any older version.

cpan> o conf urllist push http://backpan.perl.org/

This is in the CPAN.pm FAQ under "how do I install a 'DEVELOPER RELEASE' of a module?"

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