perldoc perllocal at Cygwin works. It provides me the list of modules installed.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Rex <perlici...@gmail.com> wrote: > Pardon me, if this has been already raised. I have experience in > ActivePerl from Activestate. However, I have a Cygwin for Windows, > where Perl 5.10 is installed. I am not familiar with CPAN. I did go > through some stuff at the CPAN site. But, I really want to get started > on some basic tasks that has to do with Perl on Cygwin. > > 1) How should I install new modules? (in ActivePerl, I do "ppm install DBI") > 2) How do I know about the modules already installed? (in ActivePerl, > I do, "ppm query") > 3) What is this "install" or "make" or "test" that seems to be the > norm in CPAN? When I tried to do "install DBI", it bombed on a fatal > error saying the DLL cannot be installed or something like that. Is > this how I install a new module? > > Please help. > > Thanks, > Rex > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
