Thanks for the reply Yitze. I simply wondered whether there was any benefit. I haven't yet tried the perl -MCPAN approach but have spent most of the day in cpan. I would expect to see perl -MCPAN in an anutomated approach somewhere I guess.
I have successfully updated some modules locally using cpan but some won't update e.g. due to being the 5.10 version and I'm on debian etch with 5.8.8 still. That indicates to me that either cpan or the module writer doesn't accomodate the different perl distros automagically i.e. try to find the latest in 5.8.8 rather than attempt a 5.10 download or have the module be graceful about the different versions. I had some fail to upgrade for other reasons - typically failures to compile using the version of gcc installed - or other things missing outside of what cpan can cope with. I have at least updated those I actually wanted to update. :) For anyone curious I found these techniques useful - start cpan from the command line and type in r. You'll get a list of installed modules for which there are updates. You can also upgrade all these by entering upgrade on its own or upgrade <modulename> to upgrade a specific module. Regards Lesley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
