On Jan 31, 2008 7:44 PM, Bobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 31 January 2008 17:45:53 Chas. Owens wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2008 3:01 PM, Bobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > snip > > > > > This will be done only on brand new Slackware 12 installs which does not > > > have CPAN. > > > > snip > > > > That doesn't sound right. Are you certain you have Perl installed? > > CPAN is part of Core Perl and should be there if Perl is installed. > > Try > > Sorry, yes that part is installed. What I meant is it does not have the .cpan > directory and as such has not been initialized to use the online repository. snip
That directory is created by running cpan or perl -MCPAN -e shell. Just run it, accept the defaults, and choose some repositories. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
