in reply to Database, session example in rockway book

Have you tried the obvious sudo cpan install DBIC::Session? Just because it's not in the prerequisites doesn't mean it's not required. Even jrockway makes mistakes.

Update: Use quester's response instead

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^2: Database, session example in rockway book
by quester (Vicar) on May 11, 2008 at 21:44 UTC
    I think you mean sudo cpan DBIC::Session.

    After the horror several few years back where cpan install actually installed a module called "install"... a big, peculiar module, with odd dependencies... cpan was improved to kick out the following error instead: 

    It looks like you specified 'install' as an argument to cpan(1). This
script is not the CPAN.pm prompt and doesn't understand the same comma
+nds.
In fact, doesn't require the extra typing. You probably just want to
list the modules you want to install...

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      Given that I always do /path/to/perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBIC::Session' (due to the fact that I always have several Perl builds laying about and I like being absolutely sure which one I'm working with), I don't know the actual arguments to the cpan script. :-)
      My criteria for good software:
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      2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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