Re^2: Very confused about system perl and local perl

Ok, that looks as if I 'know' what I am doing as I understand all of that now. The problem I am having with using my local copy of perl is that all of the instructions for things I need to install assume I can just use apt-get, but I can't, so then I have to try and find the appropriate CPAN modules and their dependencies which is a bit trickier when you are a beginner. I dont even know the proper names of what I should be looking for which doesn't help and searching google doesnt help either!

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Re^3: Very confused about system perl and local perl by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 28, 2010 at 19:06 UTC
They're listed in the META.yaml file included in the distribution.	[reply]
Re^3: Very confused about system perl and local perl by jethro (Monsignor) on Oct 28, 2010 at 16:50 UTC
"finding their dependencies". As ikegami remarked in the other thread about this topic today, the CPAN shell does that for you	[reply]
Re^4: Very confused about system perl and local perl by scorpio17 (Canon) on Oct 29, 2010 at 14:13 UTC
cpan is good at finding/installing dependent perl modules, but if you want to install something like GD, you need to install the c library libgd (and also libjpeg, libzlib, libttf, etc. to enable all possible features). The last time I had to install GD, cpan did not help get all these external libraries - but installing GD via the package manager (apt-get on ubuntu), did.	[reply]
Re^5: Very confused about system perl and local perl by Anonymous Monk on Oct 29, 2010 at 15:33 UTC
Someone needs to write an Alien::Gd to do just that	[reply]
Re^4: Very confused about system perl and local perl by Anonymous Monk on Oct 28, 2010 at 18:16 UTC
I didn't use the right term. I meant finding the CPAN version of the apt-get modules isn't always that easy, especially as a beginner. All my instructions are for apt-get and when you aren't very confident you'd rather just following instructions than try and translate between the 2. I tried installing a CPAN module today which failed whereas the apt-get command whizzed through. Beginners don't want things failing!	[reply]