No PPM in fedora

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

Hi everyone. I work at a college where we only use Windows. However, I have started a new project which requires me to change over to a linux system. I chose Fedora Core 5 and the installation was a breeze. My project is to take an existing open source project called CUFTS and port it over to mySQL from postgresql. This is all besides the point. Before I can install CUFTS, I have to have certain perl modules installed. This has brought to what I have found to be a considerable problem. Being that I primarily code on a windows machine, I have always used ppm to obtain new modules. It seems that my Fedora does not come with the wonderful tool and I was wondering if anyone in the monastery knows where I could find an rpm for ppm(preferred) or possibly how to install a perl module manually. Thank you people of the craft.

¥peace from CaMelRyder¥

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Re: No PPM in fedora by sgifford (Prior) on Jun 06, 2006 at 20:59 UTC
In addition to using the command-line CPAN client, as others have already suggested, RedHat packages many perl modules in RPMs. You can search for and install them with Fedora's package manager (I think it's `yum` nowadays). If they have a module packaged this way, using their system means it will be kept up-to-date automatically, instead of requiring you to monitor the module for changes and update it yourself. -- sgifford's Web page	[reply]
Re: No PPM in fedora by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jun 06, 2006 at 20:47 UTC
Fedora may or may not have Perl modules in it's own package managament system, but I think most people would just use CPAN to do this, it's just as easy as PPM on the whole. /J\	[reply]
Re: No PPM in fedora by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 06, 2006 at 20:49 UTC
You might like to read the tutorial A Guide to Installing Modules DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re: No PPM in fedora by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on Jun 06, 2006 at 20:55 UTC
One of the main reasons `ppm` exists is that most Windows machines don't have a C compiler, but FC5, like most Linux machines, has the GCC suite. The CPAN shell is as easy as ppm, so you can just pretend you're still using it. Instead of `ppm install dbd-mysql` [download] it's as easy as typing: `perl -MCPAN -e "install DBD::Mysql"` [download] The first time you use it, CPAN.pm will ask you a bunch of configuration questions, although almost all of the default will work just fine. Good luck. Do not rebuke them with harsh words ... but rather lead them gently - with URLs - so that they may learn wisdom.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: No PPM in fedora by CaMelRyder (Pilgrim) on Jun 07, 2006 at 02:09 UTC
Hey that's really cool I didn't know you could interface with CPAN like that. ¥peace from CaMelRyder¥	[reply]
Re: No PPM in fedora by saberworks (Curate) on Jun 06, 2006 at 20:54 UTC
Just in case you got lost in all those docs, check out the Interactive section: http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN-1.87/lib/CPAN.pm#Interactive_Mode Then you can install modules with a single command, install Some::Fancy::Module. Assuming everything's set up correctly and assuming the packages aren't broken, it should be able to resolve all dependencies for you automatically (although sometimes it takes a while). It works for me about 99% of the time.	[reply]
Re: No PPM in fedora by Argel (Prior) on Jun 06, 2006 at 22:56 UTC
It sounds like ActivePerl for Linux is what you are looking for.	[reply]
Re: No PPM in fedora by CaMelRyder (Pilgrim) on Jun 07, 2006 at 02:13 UTC
I really appreciate all of the help guys. Thanks alot. It was immeasurably helpful ¥peace from CaMelRyder¥	[reply]
Re^2: No PPM in fedora by mrdvt92 (Acolyte) on Apr 09, 2012 at 05:55 UTC
This is an old post but still did not have current best practices on RPM-based distributions. Using yum will work for most modules > sudo yum install 'perl(Perl::Module)' example > sudo yum install 'perl(DateTime)' Not every Perl package is package but > cpanspec -b dist.tar.gz will make it for you then you can install with > sudo yum install /path/perl-dist.rpm	[reply]