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in thread Install Math::GSL in Ubuntu

Thanks for this link. That doesn't look too good. Just out of curiosity: I had these packages installed before on my old computer (Mac) and did happily run my program. How come I cannot do that on my new machine (Ubuntu)?

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Re^6: Install Math::GSL in Ubuntu
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 23, 2009 at 12:26 UTC

    Quoting the module author in the response to the bug report:

    <bockquote> Bother. Looks like the latest Test::More has changed the diagnostic text for some test failures.

    So, straight from the horse's mouth, it seems to be a change elsewhere, and likely that change was not there when you installed it on your Mac, but is there now that you install on your Ubuntu.

    Of course, if you are actually using your system Perl, that is, you didn't compile your own version of Perl to use with your application, you're much, much better off using apt-get or aptitude to manage the modules that you install into the stock Perl.

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      Hmm, I did not compile my own version of Perl. Now, may I conclude that if I fiddle around with the different versions of the modules I might get my old program working on my new machine (for example, I used an older version of Test::Class and did manage to install it properly but then again got an error message from the newest Math::GSL, so might try to install an older version of that one too)? Thanks a lot!
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