Help installing Perl and Perl Modules on Mac OS X

2003-01-29 Thread David Brookes
Hi Everyone This is my first post and I am a complete Perl Newbie. Here is the background: (The next paragraph may be skipped.) I am involved in a physics education project which includes maintaining a rather large webpage. I am proficient in html, but I discovered that no matter what I do, dif

RE: Help installing Perl and Perl Modules on Mac OS X

2003-01-30 Thread David Brookes
> Sometimes the author knows what they are talking about ;-)... Actually, if you read the article, he says both are ok and one may choose either. > Why? What was the output and what errors were listed? If you can give a better >explanation of "did not install properly" then someone here may

Re: Help installing Perl and Perl Modules on Mac OS X

2003-01-30 Thread David Brookes
Hi again. One suggestion was to use CPAN to install the modules. Does anyone have any experience doing this on a Mac? I tried to do this and when you log on for the first time, you have to answer a whole bunch of questions. CPAN could not find certain programs it wanted (like ncftp) and I s

Re: Help installing Perl and Perl Modules on Mac OS X

2003-01-30 Thread David Brookes
> Trying to make a mod_perl with 5.8 was too much for me to get working, > and then your Apple-included modules don't work because 5.8's stuff > isn't binary compatible with 5.6.0 ... the author knew what he was > talking about. OTOH, I also installed over the default position ... Yes, I see. Y