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in thread how to install a perl module without telnet

That doesn't always work, especially if the module isn't pure Perl!

However, if you can run scripts (why else would you be uploading modules? :)), you can always do something whacky like create a CGI to handle all your server-side needs...

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use CGI::Carp qw/ fatalsToBrowser /;

$|++;

print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";

system("perl Makefile.PL ...");
# etc.

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... which should work if a compiler is available, but can get rather tedious; especially if you encounter a lot of errors or need to work around manual interaction.

    --k.


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Re: Re: Re: how to install a perl module without telnet
by Juerd (Abbot) on Mar 12, 2002 at 12:56 UTC

    However, if you can run scripts (why else would you be uploading modules? :)), you can always do something whacky like create a CGI to handle all your server-side needs...

    If you can open sockets for listening, it's easier to get yourself a shell after all ;)

    Besides, installing non-pure-perl modules on a system that you can't easily access is such a hassle I haven't even tried to figure out how it's done. Asking the system administrator to install a specific module works most of the time... 

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