If you are root on your own system and have access to the command line do this: root>perl -MCPAN -e shell
when it comes up to the shell put this in: o conf prerequisites_policy follow It will automagically go after the prerequisites for the current Module that you are installing. Robert >On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:32:07 -0500 Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. >Hello all, > >What is the easiest way to install a module from CPAN that has several >dependencies? Specifically, I want to install XML::Simple. However, that >module depends on a few other perl modules. For now, I'm downloading the >modules individually and installing them. But this seems to be a problem >of dependencies that has already been solved by apt-get in the debian world >(and now for RPMs, too). > >Is there an apt-get equivalent for perl modules? If so, what is it >called? Can CPAN already do this? If so, please point me in the right >direction. Have been googling, but nothing yet. > >Thanks in advance. > >Regards, >- Robert > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
