Since I suspect your next question would be "Ok, then how do I install the
CPAN module?" let me head this one off.
The CPAN module (CPAN.pm) comes with the basic distro of Perl, so you
should already have it. Say you want to install the "CGI.pm" module from
CPAN. At your command line, you type:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install CGI'
The -MCPAN means "use a module (-M), specifically, CPAN.pm". The -e means
"the script will be specified on the command line."
If this is the first time you've ever used CPAN, it will need to ask you a
LONG set of questions...don't be intimidated, it provides default answers
to pretty much everything, and the defaults are generally correct.
However, your question seems to have been about how to install your OWN
modules. Do this:
perl -e 'print join "\n", @INC, "\n";'
This will dump out a list of directories. On my system, the list is this:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/alpha-dec_osf
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/alpha-dec_osf
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/alpha-dec_osf
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
.
Now, if I put a file named "Foo.pm" in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl, I
could then tell Perl to use that file as a module in one of my scripts by
putting the following line at the top of the script:
use Foo;
If I created a directory in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl named
'Foo/' and in that directory I put a file named 'Bar.pm', then I could use
that module by doing:
use Foo::Bar;
Hope this helps.
Dave
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Martin Pfeffer wrote:
> Install the CPAN Module
> Then type install Modulname
>
> Hope it helps
> martin
>
> Rahul Garg wrote:
>
> > well,
> >
> > i want to install modules on my system(linux) that i have made.
> > what i know is they are to be installed at @INC.
> > but exactly how.....any suggestions....
> > any sources for reading...
> >
> > Bye,
> > Rahul
> >
> >
>
>
>
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