Hi Sonia, On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:26:10PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > I'm without an internet connection at the moment (oh the pain). > > I'm doing a fair bit of Perl stuff at the moment; I've downloaded the > tgz of all the Perl documentation for easy browsing. > > Anyone know if there's a similar tgz of documentation for all the CPAN > modules for easy browsing locally? I know about wget; I'm thinking maybe > there's an easier way...
If you've got the disk (currently 871M), the easiest way is probably CPAN::Mini. This lets you download all of CPAN to your disk, but only the very latest versions of each module. It gives you not just documentation on every module, but the modules themselves, so you can search and install any module you want while offline (and fast!). I find it invaluable. Cheers, Gavin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
