Thanks, Brandon! I’m hosted at FutureQuest.net <http://futurequest.net/>, which has Linux servers. So, nothing oddball or demanding about the environment. But my familiarty with Unix/Linux programming is almost nil, so I sweat over stuff that would seem clear to most programmers. — Rick
> On Oct 30, 2018, at 1:41 PM, Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 07:34:11AM -0500, Rick T wrote: >> Still, if anyone can point me to a “beginners guide” to using >> CPAN, I’ll take a look at it. > > The easy button for CPAN, or at least the one I'm most familiar > with, is cpanm AKA App::cpanminus. The cpan command is very > low-level and prompts the user repeatedly, making it basically > unusable by a human user. If it is available to you, or you're > able to get it installed, cpanm takes away all of this pain and > automatically fetches, builds, tests, and installs your desired > package and all of its dependencies automatically.. You'd just > invoke: > > $ cpanm Template::Simple > > And with minimal output it should install for you. If not, you > might have to get your hands dirty reading logs to figure out > what is wrong, and what to do about it, but for well maintained > packages in a Unix-like environment that is rare in my > experience.. > > You can read about cpanm and how to install it from the Git repo > readme: > https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/tree/devel/App-cpanminus > > I have not used hosting environments for Perl deployment so I > cannot say whether this is likely to be an option for you. > > On another note, a nice way to control your Perl environment is > by using perlbrew, which allows you to install an up-to-date perl > distribution within your home directory to use, and to likewise > install your CPAN modules within your home directory too. It is > also capable of managing many different perl environments > side-by-side which probably isn't needed, but doesn't hurt to > know about.. > > I'm not sure how difficult it would be to use a perlbrew > environment for your hosting environment, but nevertheless it is > a useful resource to know about. Note that if you do use perlbrew > it has a command to install cpanm too so it might kill two birds > with one stone. > > Regards, > > > -- > Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> <bamb...@castopulence.org> > Castopulence Software <https://www.castopulence.org/> > Blog <http://www.bambams.ca/> > perl -E '$_=q{V zrna gur orfg jvgu jung V fnl. }. > q{Vg qbrfa'\''g nyjnlf fbhaq gung jnl.}; > tr/A-Ma-mN-Zn-z/N-Zn-zA-Ma-m/;say' >
