On 2/6/02 at 22:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morbus Iff) wrote: > >I've set up a PowerMac 5400/180Mhz/136MB RAM with MacPerl 5.6.1r1 on > OS > >9.1 and, only having experience of using CPAN on Mac OS X (via the > CLI), > >I'm stuck trying to find docs on how to run CPAN from MacPerl (I've > tried > >the usual places, dev.macperl, PTF's old page, etc but no luck). > > I had gotten the CPAN to work by using the "One-Liner" menu option > under > "Tools" and typing in "perl -MCPAN -eshell". As is typical, it > realized > that CPAN had never been run, and thus start prompting for various > configuration settings. Eventually, I got to a point where keyboard > input > seemed to crap out - I couldn't delete, I couldn't cancel (via the > keyboard), I couldn't <return>, etc.
I thought that that would be the way to go (using the one-liner) but wondered about the ramifications of running FirstTime, etc. > Eventually, to get the CPAN working through the shell, I copied and > tweaked > my configuration file from the OS X Perl, and hemmed and hawed until > things > were perfect. This may not be ideal for you. > > In which case, you may just want to download the tarbull's from the > CPAN.org site, and then drag and drop them onto the "installme" > Droplet. > You may also want to look at MacOS/XS compatible modules here > (XML::Parser, > etc.): Many thanks, Morbus. I think I'll maybe use the installme route. The OS 9 box is not on the network connection yet (it's still on dial-up) so I guess the droplet's the way to go. Regards, Phil.
