>> apt-get: doesn't even have a search function, > crschm...@helios:~$ apt-cache search io::all
And sudo apt-get install apt-show-version for good measure so you can sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-show-version -u >> network troubles with Ubuntu (don't get me started) Not here, no please, but you could try Mass Ubuntu LoCo list or irc chan if you want more than quiet sympathy. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MassachusettsTeam/ http://java.freenode.net//index.php?channel=ubuntu-us-ma Forum: http://ma.ubuntuforums.org/ IRC: #ubuntu-us-ma on irc.freenode.net Mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ma I had odd problems with my legacy connection key to a legacy wifi after last Ubupgrade, with a tolerable workaround, but it recently got better. On its own. Must have gotten fixed in routine updates. >> Is the sysadmin motto "just get it to work and then don't touch it" All too often, alas. > Well, personally, my motto is 'Use Debian'. Ubuntu is Debian I can let other people use. E.g., My septuagenarian mother has a retro-netbook (Lifebook P2120) for use on vacation, courtesy of fleamarket and Xubuntu. Upside is we keep current with fewer phonecalls, downside is we get fewer postcards of stale news. > And won't there be consequences for > installing modules both through distributions AND through CPAN? Yes, you want to keep distinct the modules you build from CPAN whether by hand, or by CPAN[2]* shell, from those installed by apt*|yum. I do the cpan ones only with the blead Perl or retro perl I built locally, and the distro ones go to /usr. Then I can pick safe tree or current tree by which alias I run perl with. And builtin scripts don't get broken. As to building Io::all, it looks like it mostly works on cpantesters systems. http://bbbike.radzeit.de/~slaven/cpantestersmatrix.cgi?dist=IO-All+0.39 (pretty) http://www.cpantesters.org/show/IO-All.html (detailed) And pass rate went up from 0.38 - 0.39 . So a clean perl environment should build it ok, but not one where MacUpdate broke perl. Bill @ $DayJob _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
