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

Hello monks. I'm trying to install PDL using CPANPLUS. The cpanp help shows how to install modules easily enough, but I can't figure out how to install bundles. Indeed I didn't even know there was a distinction between the two. If you look for PDL on cpan, you should find I tried this in cpanp:

CPAN Terminal> m pdl 1 Algorithm::Simplex::PDL MATEU 2 Astro::FITS::CFITSIO::Simple::PDL 0.16 DJERIUS 3 BPM::XPDL 0.03 MARKOV 4 BPM::XPDL::Util 0.03 MARKOV

which, as you can see, came up with a handful of modules to be used with PDL, but not PDL itself. On the other hand, in cpan I get

cpan[3]> i PDL Module id = PDL DESCRIPTION Perl Data Language - numeric analysis env CPAN_USERID PERLDL (The Perl Data Language Mailing List <perldl@j +ach.hawaii.edu>) CPAN_VERSION 2.004004 CPAN_FILE C/CH/CHM/PDL-2.4.4.tar.gz UPLOAD_DATE 2008-11-13 DSLIP_STATUS amcf? (alpha,mailing-list,C,functions,) MANPAGE PDL - the Perl Data Language INST_FILE (not installed)

which is precisely what I'm looking for.

So my question is this: can I search for and install bundles using CPANPLUS, and if so, how do I do it? Or, is this a present limitation of CPANPLUS, so I'll have to use cpan to do it?

P.S. I'll probably start monitoring the git repository for pdl. Still, it would be nice to know how to do this using CPANPLUS.

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Re: Can One Install Bundles using CPANPLUS?
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 06, 2009 at 15:39 UTC
      Thanks for your reply. The m option is the right one. I'm not sure where the root of my problem lie, though, because I reinstalled my OS and everything seems to be working fine now.