Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread John Delacour
At 18:38 + 1/11/11, Phil Dobbin wrote: I use the /usr/local/ version for everything & leave the other two to their intended purposes. My question is how do I configure CPAN to install into /usr/local/? The way I do it is simply: $ cd /usr/local/bin; sudo ./cpan No disrespect to Perlbrew

Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 1/11/11 at 21:09, shlo...@shlomifish.org (Shlomi Fish) wrote: > You can do «/usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'» or a different CPAN.pm (or > CPANPLUS/etc.) command. Hi. Yeah, I ended up setting up an alias in my .bash_profile as so: alias cpan=’sudo /usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell’ &

Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:38:38 + Phil Dobbin wrote: > Hi. > > I have three versions of perl on my machine (Macbook Pro running > 10.6.8.): v.5.12 in /opt/local/ for MacPorts, v.5.10 in > /usr/bin/ which is the system perl & my developer perl v.5.14 in /usr/local/. > > I use the /usr/local/

Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 1/11/11 at 19:42, p...@pjcj.net (Paul Johnson) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 07:18:06PM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: [snip] > > What’s your opinion on hard-pathing to CPAN a la `$ > > /usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell’ in order to use the CPAN that’s > > installed there to install modules i

Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 07:18:06PM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: > From the Googling I did concerning this, I came across perlbrew & > bootstrapping using local::lib but wondered if there was a simpler > solution. Quite. > What’s your opinion on hard-pathing to CPAN a la `$ > /usr/local/bin/perl -MC

Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 1/11/11 at 18:45, shawnhco...@gmail.com (Shawn H Corey) wrote: I think perlbrew can be used to switch between installed Perls. If so, switch to the one you want and run `cpan`. This will cause cpan to use the active perl and install the modules in its @INC directories. I use perlbrew to i

Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-11-01 02:38 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: I use the /usr/local/ version for everything & leave the other two to their intended purposes. My question is how do I configure CPAN to install into /usr/local/? I think perlbrew can be used to switch between installed Perls. If so, switch to the one y

CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi. I have three versions of perl on my machine (Macbook Pro running 10.6.8.): v.5.12 in /opt/local/ for MacPorts, v.5.10 in /usr/bin/ which is the system perl & my developer perl v.5.14 in /usr/local/. I use the /usr/local/ version for everything & leave the other two to their intended purp

RE: CPAN question

2008-11-19 Thread Stewart Anderson
> -Original Message- > From: Kevin Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 November 2008 19:14 > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: CPAN question > > Hi, > > I'm a system administrator, not a programmer, and my only experience > with Perl is se

CPAN question

2008-11-19 Thread Kevin Murphy
Hi, I'm a system administrator, not a programmer, and my only experience with Perl is setting up and maintaining a Bugzilla installation on an Ubuntu LAMP server. I am now attempting to integrate our Active Directory with Request-Tracker to give it a test run but have gotten stuck in the mud wit

Re: cpan question

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Hicks
Xavier Noria wrote: On May 14, 2007, at 3:50 PM, Robert Hicks wrote: I am working on a Perl 5.6.0 project and went to use "cpan" at the command line and behold it was not there. I download the 5.6.1 tar file and behold "cpan" the command line program wasn't in there either. Did it not come w

Re: cpan question

2007-05-14 Thread Chas Owens
On 5/14/07, Xavier Noria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip perl -MCPAN -e 'install Module' snip or perl -MCPAN -e shell If you prefer and interactive version of CPAN. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: cpan question

2007-05-14 Thread Xavier Noria
On May 14, 2007, at 3:50 PM, Robert Hicks wrote: I am working on a Perl 5.6.0 project and went to use "cpan" at the command line and behold it was not there. I download the 5.6.1 tar file and behold "cpan" the command line program wasn't in there either. Did it not come with 5.6.0/5.6.1?

cpan question

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Hicks
I am working on a Perl 5.6.0 project and went to use "cpan" at the command line and behold it was not there. I download the 5.6.1 tar file and behold "cpan" the command line program wasn't in there either. Did it not come with 5.6.0/5.6.1? I don't see where I can get it either... Robert -- T

Re: CPAN question

2004-01-20 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 4:21 pm, Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2004 4:05 pm, Tim McGeary wrote: > > Maybe this isn't the right place to ask this question, but I'm a little > > desparate. Does anyone know how to edit the CPAN config to add other > > mirrors to download CPAN modul

Re: CPAN question

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Scott
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim McGeary) writes: >Maybe this isn't the right place to ask this question, but I'm a little >desparate. Does anyone know how to edit the CPAN config to add other >mirrors to download CPAN modules from? The mirror that my CPAN >installation

Re: CPAN question

2004-01-20 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 4:05 pm, Tim McGeary wrote: > Maybe this isn't the right place to ask this question, but I'm a little > desparate. Does anyone know how to edit the CPAN config to add other > mirrors to download CPAN modules from? The mirror that my CPAN > installation is looking for is

CPAN question

2004-01-20 Thread Tim McGeary
Maybe this isn't the right place to ask this question, but I'm a little desparate. Does anyone know how to edit the CPAN config to add other mirrors to download CPAN modules from? The mirror that my CPAN installation is looking for is down and I can't figure out how to change it. Thanks, Tim

CPAN question: configuration of get mechanism?

2003-06-24 Thread Travis J.I. Corcoran
Hi. I'm a new Perl programmer and CPAN user. Here's my problem: When I try to use CPAN to fetch something, all the normal mechanisms time out, and then I get down to ncftpget, which works. I'm not behind a firewall, so I would have thought that LWP would work (as a matter of fact, I've written

Re: CPAN Question

2001-04-28 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Michael Lamertz wrote: [...] > I remember having a Makefile.PL that explicitely overruled the > environment variable by using the compiler that perl was built with. > You can check which compiler that is with the command > > perl -lMConfig -e 'print $Config{cc}' You wan

Re: CPAN Question

2001-04-27 Thread Michael Lamertz
Phillip Bruce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Sometime back some one gave me the path to a config file in > which told cpan where and what compilers that my systems > uses. > Does anyone have any ideas to this. > > I get this error: > /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software packa

RE: CPAN Question

2001-04-26 Thread King, Jason
Phillip Bruce writes .. > Sometime back some one gave me the path to a config file in > which told cpan where and what compilers that my systems uses. > Does anyone have any ideas to this. /path/to/perl/lib/Config.pm -- jason king A Canadian law states that citizens may not publicly

CPAN Question

2001-04-26 Thread Phillip Bruce
Hi, Sometime back some one gave me the path to a config file in which told cpan where and what compilers that my systems uses. Does anyone have any ideas to this. I get this error: /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed That is because I'm not using cc but gc