can't get old perl installed

[Dave Cross]

On 2/10/06, Anne Ramey <anner at blast.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to install perl 5.6.1 on FC3 (64 bit) becuase I have a
> program one of the sites uses (gd chart) that will not build on any
> newer perl.  I've downloaded the rpm, but I get this:
>   rpm -ivh perl-5.6.1-36.1.73.i386.rpm
> warning: perl-5.6.1-36.1.73.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
> db42a60e
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          perl-CPAN is needed by perl-5.6.1-36.1.73.i386
>          perl-CGI is needed by perl-5.6.1-36.1.73.i386
>          perl-DB_File is needed by perl-5.6.1-36.1.73.i386
>          perl-NDBM_File is needed by perl-5.6.1-36.1.73.i386

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> I have cpan, etc installed for the current versions of perl.  I'm unsure
> how I can get the old versions without mucking up my 5.8.5 install.
> Pointers?  Does anyone else have gd-chart running on FC3?

Yeah. Perl is pretty heavily tied in to FC, downgrading is always
going to be a pain. Your best bet would be to contact the developers
of gd-chart and ask them to fix the problems that prevent it from
running on a modern Perl.

Alternatively, you could download the 5.6.1 Perl source (from CPAN)
and build it yourself and call the binary perl561 or something like
that.

Dave...