[ABE.pm] Alternate Perl Installs and/or how to deal with indolence

Ricardo SIGNES rjbs-perl-abe at lists.manxome.org
Tue Jun 5 06:13:19 PDT 2007


* Ted Fiedler <fiedlert at gmail.com> [2007-06-05T08:31:45]
> What I have done in the past has been to install Perl into say /opt or
> /usr/local. I guess this is acceptable, BUT now after I test each program
> with

I think your best options are:

 (a) build a package for your OS's packaging system (perl-5.10-proprietary.rpm)
 or
 (b) install to /opt/perl-5.8.9

> Is this the norm? A norm? ( Not the laziness, but the alternate Perl
> install... )

I don't know, honestly.

> Also - when I run /opt/Perl/bin/perl -MCPAN -eshell will modules be
> installed in the correct locations? Easy enough to test myself, but laziness
> pervades and I must ask before trying :)

Yes.

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rjbs


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