On Dec 11, 2007, at 9:36 PM, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:

cpan will resolve dependencies, sometimes a lot of them it seems, and
works quite well most of the time. If there are problems, you sometimes
have to fetch a tarball and do the make and install by hand -- but
that's somewhat rare (YMMV).


A much better solution, if you want to stick to RPMs, is to use cpan2rpm:

http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/ (first hit on google)

It's a nice wrapper for CPAN that builds the modules as RPMs on your system.

Gregory

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