Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread John Delacour
At 18:38 + 1/11/11, Phil Dobbin wrote: I use the /usr/local/ version for everything & leave the other two to their intended purposes. My question is how do I configure CPAN to install into /usr/local/? The way I do it is simply: $ cd /usr/local/bin; sudo ./cpan No disrespect to Perlbrew

Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 1/11/11 at 21:09, shlo...@shlomifish.org (Shlomi Fish) wrote: > You can do «/usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'» or a different CPAN.pm (or > CPANPLUS/etc.) command. Hi. Yeah, I ended up setting up an alias in my .bash_profile as so: alias cpan=’sudo /usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell’ &

Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:38:38 + Phil Dobbin wrote: > Hi. > > I have three versions of perl on my machine (Macbook Pro running > 10.6.8.): v.5.12 in /opt/local/ for MacPorts, v.5.10 in > /usr/bin/ which is the system perl & my developer perl v.5.14 in /usr/local/. > > I use the /usr/local/

Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 1/11/11 at 19:42, p...@pjcj.net (Paul Johnson) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 07:18:06PM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: [snip] > > What’s your opinion on hard-pathing to CPAN a la `$ > > /usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell’ in order to use the CPAN that’s > > installed there to install modules i

Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 07:18:06PM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: > From the Googling I did concerning this, I came across perlbrew & > bootstrapping using local::lib but wondered if there was a simpler > solution. Quite. > What’s your opinion on hard-pathing to CPAN a la `$ > /usr/local/bin/perl -MC

Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 1/11/11 at 18:45, shawnhco...@gmail.com (Shawn H Corey) wrote: I think perlbrew can be used to switch between installed Perls. If so, switch to the one you want and run `cpan`. This will cause cpan to use the active perl and install the modules in its @INC directories. I use perlbrew to i

Re: CPAN question

2011-11-01 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-11-01 02:38 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: I use the /usr/local/ version for everything & leave the other two to their intended purposes. My question is how do I configure CPAN to install into /usr/local/? I think perlbrew can be used to switch between installed Perls. If so, switch to the one y

RE: CPAN question

2008-11-19 Thread Stewart Anderson
> -Original Message- > From: Kevin Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 November 2008 19:14 > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: CPAN question > > Hi, > > I'm a system administrator, not a programmer, and my only experience > with Perl is setting up and maintaining a Bugzilla instal

Re: cpan question

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Hicks
Xavier Noria wrote: On May 14, 2007, at 3:50 PM, Robert Hicks wrote: I am working on a Perl 5.6.0 project and went to use "cpan" at the command line and behold it was not there. I download the 5.6.1 tar file and behold "cpan" the command line program wasn't in there either. Did it not come w

Re: cpan question

2007-05-14 Thread Chas Owens
On 5/14/07, Xavier Noria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip perl -MCPAN -e 'install Module' snip or perl -MCPAN -e shell If you prefer and interactive version of CPAN. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: cpan question

2007-05-14 Thread Xavier Noria
On May 14, 2007, at 3:50 PM, Robert Hicks wrote: I am working on a Perl 5.6.0 project and went to use "cpan" at the command line and behold it was not there. I download the 5.6.1 tar file and behold "cpan" the command line program wasn't in there either. Did it not come with 5.6.0/5.6.1?

Re: CPAN question

2004-01-20 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 4:21 pm, Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2004 4:05 pm, Tim McGeary wrote: > > Maybe this isn't the right place to ask this question, but I'm a little > > desparate. Does anyone know how to edit the CPAN config to add other > > mirrors to download CPAN modul

Re: CPAN question

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Scott
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim McGeary) writes: >Maybe this isn't the right place to ask this question, but I'm a little >desparate. Does anyone know how to edit the CPAN config to add other >mirrors to download CPAN modules from? The mirror that my CPAN >installation

Re: CPAN question

2004-01-20 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 4:05 pm, Tim McGeary wrote: > Maybe this isn't the right place to ask this question, but I'm a little > desparate. Does anyone know how to edit the CPAN config to add other > mirrors to download CPAN modules from? The mirror that my CPAN > installation is looking for is

Re: CPAN Question

2001-04-28 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Michael Lamertz wrote: [...] > I remember having a Makefile.PL that explicitely overruled the > environment variable by using the compiler that perl was built with. > You can check which compiler that is with the command > > perl -lMConfig -e 'print $Config{cc}' You wan

Re: CPAN Question

2001-04-27 Thread Michael Lamertz
Phillip Bruce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Sometime back some one gave me the path to a config file in > which told cpan where and what compilers that my systems > uses. > Does anyone have any ideas to this. > > I get this error: > /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software packa

RE: CPAN Question

2001-04-26 Thread King, Jason
Phillip Bruce writes .. > Sometime back some one gave me the path to a config file in > which told cpan where and what compilers that my systems uses. > Does anyone have any ideas to this. /path/to/perl/lib/Config.pm -- jason king A Canadian law states that citizens may not publicly