Derrick: You made it look so simple. Thanks.. As a matter of fact, a BIG THANKS.
Kirti -----Original Message----- From: Derrick Spell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 7:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl with MySQL > Today, when I tried to install Perl using the above sequence of > commands. > However, after I entered the third command "cpan> install > Data::Dumper";, a > message was displayed indicating that there is a new version of perl & > it > canbe installed by using the command "cpan> install Bundle::CPAN". > Well, I > changed the commands to as follows: > > % echo $PATH > % perl -MCPAN -e shell > Note: Answer "no" to auto-configure perl. > cpan> install Data::Dumper > cpan> install Bundle::CPAN > cpan> install Bundle::DBI > cpan> install Bundle::DBD::mysql > cpan> quit > First of all, the echo command above isn't really doing anything. You can drop it. Second, the prompt you were getting was most likely that the version of the CPAN package you are using is out of date (that is, the cpan> prompt has a newer version). Change the order to: % perl -MCPAN -e shell Note: Answer "no" to auto-configure perl. cpan> install Bundle::CPAN cpan> install Data::Dumper cpan> install Bundle::DBI cpan> install Bundle::DBD::mysql cpan> quit Derrick Spell Webmaster / Programmer Suran Systems, Inc.
