Re: Re: Re: Installing Modules: Noob having problems

As for the larger question of building modules you fetch from CPAN, most are nowhere near so complicated as this.

I'm not a fan of CPAN's "shell" but you might want to google for something like cpan shell redhat howto and walk through some examples.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Installing Modules: Noob having problems by vek (Prior) on May 10, 2003 at 03:22 UTC
Just out of curiosity halley, what do you dislike about the CPAN shell? -- vek --	[reply]
Re^5: Installing Modules: Noob having problems by halley (Prior) on May 10, 2003 at 21:17 UTC
An installation of Red Hat Linux is built around the RPM database. CPAN's shell has no connection to that database, so files it installs are not as trackable. Also, CPAN's shell has a habit of wanting to fetch and build the latest perl interpreter. The interface is not very intuitive, and again, mucks up what you've already installed unless you know the right place to say "no." Also, good packages are built as non-root, and installed as root. I don't like root to compile things. There are too many ways a Makefile can make a deadly mistake. For the modules I install from CPAN, I run it through the latest `cpanflute` script, which gives me a nice rebuildable-as-not-root perl-Foo-Bar-1.0.src.rpm. For the few modules it doesn't handle, I make the RPM .spec file myself. RPM can then track perl-Foo-Bar dependencies cleanly and automatically. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Installing Modules: Noob having problems by Anonymous Monk on May 09, 2003 at 14:07 UTC
yes indeed its there and fuly working I guess. I will check out 2 other options , the CPAN method you mention and RPM which I have just been reading about. All good. Progress stepwise, but satisfying progress nontheless. Cheers Ed.	[reply]