On 21 Nov 2016, at 13:04, Michael Fox wrote:
Thanks Mickey.
That doesn't appear to be a "module", but rather an archive of
multiple modules, right?
(I'm new to CPAN, too).
MailTools is a Distribution: a collection of related modules maintained
as one project because they are interdependent. I cannot explain why the
Download page shows it as MailTools-1. I don't expect that MD actually
wants an ancient version 1.x, and I've seen no sign of trouble with the
current version.
The Download page probably should say Distributions rather than Modules,
since all of those are Distributions.
So, is the instruction to download, unpack and install this archive,
using sudo?
You can find a Distribution's author/distribution-version ID in an
interactive CPAN shell with 'i /<distribution-name>/' e.g.:
cpan[1]> i /MailTools/
Distribution id = M/MA/MARKOV/MailTools-2.18.tar.gz
CPAN_USERID MARKOV (Mark Overmeer <[email protected]>)
CONTAINSMODS Mail::Address Mail::Cap Mail::Field
Mail::Field::AddrList Mail::Field::Date Mail::Field::Generic
Mail::Filter Mail::Header Mail::Internet Mail::Mailer
Mail::Mailer::qmail Mail::Mailer::rfc822 Mail::Mailer::sendmail
Mail::Mailer::smtp Mail::Mailer::smtp::pipe Mail::Mailer::smtps
Mail::Mailer::smtps::pipe Mail::Mailer::testfile
Mail::Mailer::testfile::pipe Mail::Send Mail::Util
And then (if the CPAN shell was started as root) install that with:
cpan[2]> install MARKOV/MailTools-2.18.tar.gz
And, for my other question, should I install the other modules listed
on the Download page using
(sudo) CPAN?
Yes. *ALL* of those are Distribution names, which is why they don't use
the :: module delimiter. You should be able to get them all using CPAN.
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