On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Joe Echavarria wrote:
I want to know if there is an utility that i could use to install the perl modules directly from CPAN on a sun solaris box. It is something like ppm on windows activeperl.
You seem to be thinking of the CPAN shell.
Run this command to set it up:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
You will need root / sudo access to run this. The first time you run it, you will spend five minutes or so answering questions about your setup; in most cases the defaults will be fine, but if you're asked if you want to upgrade Perl itself, *don't* let it -- there's a bug in some old versions of CPAN.pm that will make a royal mess if you let it do this.
Once the CPAN shell is set up, you can just do things like this:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Whatever'
or
$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Bundle::Whateveretc.
Very useful...
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