On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Brad <platyp...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello Padre dev and users, > > Consider, you are just learning Perl and you want a good editor. There's > only one choice... Padre. And, because it is in development the > installation takes special considerations. For instance, yesterday I > learned this is the very worst thing a noob can do... > > sudo cpan Padre > > Do that on your System Perl and you no longer have a working copy of > Perl because sudo changed the folder permissions up and down the file > tree to 'Root'. This is how I install any perl module from CPAN, and it's how I installed Padre on my Ubuntu system. I have not run into such difficulties. The only difference between you and me is that I've not upgraded in a month or two, so there may be some new module that gives trouble. However, in my experience installing Padre (and installing Wx beforehand, as I recall) into my system directory seems to work just fine. That having been said... > They don't call perl the 'Swiss Army Chainsaw' for > nothing. Changing back to the original file permissions is impossible. > So... reformat ext4, LiveCD install Ubuntu 9.10. Then... after I get > back to an internet access I search online about installing a local copy > of Perl into my user folder. I installed module local::lib; then cpan > Padre; then used the CPAN Padre-info-page to locate Padre::Plugin::Tidy. > Now I have an application that helps me to write Perl code. Furthermore, > I have more confidence about adding any more perl modules. > This is a good point, and many people will prefer a local::lib install to a sudo install for the reason you give. > The zipped download (v.55) from the Padre-dev web page is too finicky > about the path/to/padre.sh. I gave up on that, because of Perl::Tidy the > v.55 crashes, and, if you unzipped the padre-perl combo archive into > your (new) Perl5.1 folder, like I say, the shell won't run. You get: > padre.sh: 14: /home/vcbrad/padre-5.11/perl-5.11.4-xl-0.03/perl/bin/perl: > not found > > > I would be willing to write a HowTo of how I got a working copy of Padre > v.66. It does take pre-installation of Wx. The steps I went through are > very fuzzy. So, if I can ask questions from you guys about general perl > install to a local location, I will write the HowTo. > Please do! I can't imagine anybody on this list will be opposed to it. I typically work from these instructions<http://padre.perlide.org/trac/wiki/Download#Ubuntu1>, but it wouldn't hurt to have an alternate take on the process, especially one that uses local::lib. The maintainers should be able to use whatever you write. If nothing else, it will give them an opportunity to review their current instructions. David -- Sent via my carrier pigeon.
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