Re^3: Very confused about system perl and local perl

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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]