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in thread Programmatically installing modules

I already check for the availability of the module (via a require) before I try to install.

My main problem at the moment is making the installation non-interactive.

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Re^3: Programmatically installing modules
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 23, 2013 at 10:41 UTC
    I thought you wanted to avoid automatic updates?

    Cheers Rolf

    ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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      Yes that is why I do a require first and only when that fails I do the install.

      So when I have the module the require succeeds and I do not run the install.

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        And how do you check if the already installed module has the correct version? :)

        sudo cpan -D List::Util
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.21)
Going to read '/home/lanx/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:41:02 GMT
List::Util
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---
    List utilities (eg min, max, reduce)
    P/PE/PEVANS/Scalar-List-Utils-1.35.tar.gz
    /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0/List/Util.pm
    Installed: 1.22
    CPAN:      1.35  Not up to date
    Graham Barr (GBARR)
    gbarr@pobox.com

        [download]

        Cheers Rolf

        ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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