On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:07:51AM -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > Being my first time using CPAN to install a new perl module, I thought > that it would be a piece of cake...
I would suggest using CPANPLUS instead. > I attempted to install the module Image::Timeline like this: > > $ cpan > > cpan> install Image::Timeline > > ... it downloaded and installed GD first, and then started compiling > the Image::Timeline module > ...however one of the tests failed, and would not install. I forced the > install to see if it would work anyways, but alas a simple script that > calls this module always fails. > > here is the low down on the module: > http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/Image-Timeline-0.11/Timeline.pm > > Right now I am stuck as to what I need to do in order to > 1. remove this module from my local machine If the module installed a packlist, it should be somewhere like: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/auto/Image/Timeline/.packlist Just rm the files in this list. CPAN doesn't directly provide an uninstall method (CPANPLUS does). The ExtUtils::Packlist module contains a command for uninstalling from a packlist. > 2. re-install and save the error messages for further help from some > kind soul "script" is useful for this. -David _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
