You may find the use of
perl -MCPAN
helpful for installing CPAN modules. It actually will install dependencies
for you automatically, which can be very very handy.
You can do things like this...
perl -MCPAN -e shell
> install WordNet-QueryData
and it will locate and install that module for you!
To run this, you need to create the following file/directory
~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm
Initially, this file should consist of something like the following:
$CPAN::Config = {
'cpan_home' => q[/home/cs/tpederse/.cpan]
};
where cpan_home is the directory where you want to store modules and have
some working directories.
If you create this file, then the first time you run
perl -MCPAN -e shell
you will go through a configuration process that will get everything set
up for you.
In general, this is a very nice way to set things up for automatic
installation.
In fact, if your essay grading system (or other module) was a CPAN module,
which it can be if you want it to be, then you could set it up so that all
of your other dependent CPAN modules were automatically downloaded and
installed when someone did
perl -MCPAN -e shell
> install Ted-Module
that can be very nice.
In any case, some of you are doing very manual installations of CPAN
modules, and that can be a bit tedious. You may want to check out the
above to speed things up and make it more reliable and even perhaps fun.
--
Ted Pedersen
http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse
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