Re^2: Strategy for Perl and wxPerl on Linux

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Re^3: Strategy for Perl and wxPerl on Linux by zwon (Abbot) on Oct 16, 2009 at 21:57 UTC
As you're using Kubuntu it seems logical to use its native utilities for managing packages - aptitude, apt, or synaptic. I think you should find them quite convenient, they allow you easy install a lot of different perl modules from repository. The advantage over ppm is that these utilities will automatically install additional binary libraries that required for some perl modules, e.g. if you're installing libwx-perl it will automatically install wx libraries. Upd: Note, that if you want to install from CPAN perl package Package::Name you should look for libpackage-name-perl package in Ubuntu repository. Also try `apt-cache search package-name`. As alternative you can use cpanp to install modules.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Strategy for Perl and wxPerl on Linux by thunders (Priest) on Oct 17, 2009 at 00:39 UTC
I did use PPM a while back when I did primarily win32 programming. But I've never used ActiveState's perl distro on Linux. Even on windows I've started using Strawberry Perl, as it comes with useful GNU toolchain for building XS modules I have used other AS programs in the past on Linux without isuue, like Komodo and KomodoEdit. On Ubuntu almost everything you'll need is available via apt-get, and for everything else there's CPAN.	[reply]