Installing tarballs with CPAN.pm

Ovid has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Quite often I find myself in the position of having a tarball that I'd like to install with CPAN.pm. There are two reasons I'd like to do this:

Let CPAN.pm find and install dependencies for me
Take advantage of my highly customized CPAN installation requirements

In other words, I'd like to do this:

  $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
  CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.65)

  cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9102)
  ReadLine support enabled

  cpan[1]> install ./Highly-Experimental-0.01.tgz
[download]

I've looked for a hack that would let me do this, but no luck. Is there a way to do this that I just haven't seen in the docs?

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

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Re: Installing tarballs with CPAN.pm by ForgotPasswordAgain (Vicar) on Dec 19, 2007 at 14:52 UTC
I see a section "Integrating local directories" that says `cpan .` should work. I didn't try it myself, though.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Installing tarballs with CPAN.pm by Ovid (Cardinal) on Dec 19, 2007 at 14:56 UTC
Sweet! Looks like I still have some configuration issues, but that worked just fine :) Thank you. Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply]
Re: Installing tarballs with CPAN.pm by polettix (Vicar) on Dec 19, 2007 at 14:54 UTC
At a raw, raw, raw level, you could create your CPAN::Mini-mirror and put your module under "your" directory in the mirror. Then, `unshift` the mirror with `o conf urllist unshift /path/to/cpan-mini` and install the tarball as usual with `install Highly::Experimental`. I know, it's a lot of work... at least for the first time. In any case, having a CPAN::Mini mirror is very, very handy. Hey! Up to Dec 16, 2007 I was named frodo72, take note of the change! Flavio perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf Io ho capito... ma tu che hai detto?	[reply] [d/l] [select]