RE: Module install

2003-09-10 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
For those that prefer CPAN, you can mimc the behavior Rob describes by setting the 'makepl_arg' switch when configuring, or if you have already configured, you can set it using the 'o conf' options For instance: o conf makepl_arg "PREFIX=/path/to/lib LIB=/path/to/lib" (temporary) o conf com

RE: Module install

2003-09-10 Thread denis
Thanks Rob.. Denis On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Hanson, Rob wrote: > Sure. > > Use this when running Makefile.PL. > > perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/myhomelib PREFIX=~/myhomelib > > This will install the modules to ~/myhomelib. To use the modules in a > script you can either "use lib '/myhomepath/myhomelib'

RE: Module install

2003-09-10 Thread Hanson, Rob
Sure. Use this when running Makefile.PL. perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/myhomelib PREFIX=~/myhomelib This will install the modules to ~/myhomelib. To use the modules in a script you can either "use lib '/myhomepath/myhomelib'" (note the full path, no ~). Or you can set the environment var PERL5LIB to

RE: module install

2003-08-29 Thread Rajesh Dorairajan
I don't know if someone already replied to this. I ran into this issue on Windows. I overcame it by editing the Makefile.PL and removing the entry PREREQ_PM from the hash and doing perl Makefile.PL (n)make (n)make install Try it out Rajesh -Original Message- From: Sylvain Masnada [mailt

RE: Module install

2003-08-01 Thread Dan Muey
> It was Friday, August 01, 2003 when Dan Muey took the soap > box, saying: > : Howdy all am I thinking of this corretcly: > : According to: > : > http://search.cpan.org/author/JHI/perl-5.8.0/lib/ExtUtils/Make Maker.pm#make_test : : : If I have a file called test.pl it will run that script as t

Re: Module install

2003-08-01 Thread Casey West
It was Friday, August 01, 2003 when Dan Muey took the soap box, saying: : Howdy all am I thinking of this corretcly: : According to: : http://search.cpan.org/author/JHI/perl-5.8.0/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm#make_test : : : If I have a file called test.pl it will run that script as teste of the ins

Re: Module Install problem

2002-04-02 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Connie Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a problem for installing module MIME::Base64. > I am using ActiveState Perl on Win32 OS. > > When I try to use ppm "install MIME::Base64", I got : > Error installing package 'MIME-Base64': Could not locate a PPD file > for packa

Re: Module Install problem

2002-03-31 Thread Connie Chan
Well, I just found that I can install it by MIME::Decoder::Base64, however, why does the problem exist ? What can I do if I see these loop-back error occur ? - Original Message - From: "Connie Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 5:20 AM Subject:

Re: module install

2001-06-29 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Hal Wigoda [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>I'm trying to install a module as root *>from cpan *>and it is looking for my ncftp program *>and it is not found. *> *>What do i do now?? *> *>I'm using mandrake 7.2 on my linux server. Configure CPAN.pm to use ftp elaine@chaos /home/chaos/elaine> perl -M

Re: module install

2001-06-29 Thread Adam Turoff
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:10:04PM -0500, Hal Wigoda wrote: > I'm trying to install a module as root > from cpan > and it is looking for my ncftp program > and it is not found. > > What do i do now?? > > I'm using mandrake 7.2 on my linux server. You can install ncftp from your mandrake CDs, or

Re: module install

2001-06-29 Thread Farouk Khawaja
You're probably using $ perl -MCPAN -e shell > install If you're not, you should. Anyway, this method tries 3 different ways to download a module, lwp, Net::Ftp and ncftp. Any one of these should work if you have them installed. If not, install them. Hal Wigoda <[EMAIL PRO

Re: module install

2001-06-29 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:31:28AM -0500, Hal Wigoda wrote: > When you install a perl module from CPAN > should you do it as root??? Often the answer you'll see in response to this question is "yes", as evidenced by the two answers I see to your question already. The real answer is "it depends"

Re: module install

2001-06-29 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Hal Wigoda wrote: > When you install a perl module from CPAN > should you do it as root??? Yes. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ "We can't schedule an or

Re: module install

2001-06-29 Thread Adam Turoff
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:31:28AM -0500, Hal Wigoda wrote: > > When you install a perl module from CPAN > should you do it as root??? That's the easiest way to do it. Another possibility is to install somewhere else on the file system, not in the system site_perl directory. That other direct