G'Day,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Craig Sanders</b> <<a href="mailto:cas@taz.net.au">cas@taz.net.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:10:32AM +1000, Leigh Sharpe wrote:<br>> Just wanted some people's thoughts on what the 'best' way to install<br>> perl modules on linux is: CPAN or your distro's package manager.
<br><br>if the distro has a package for the perl module you want, then use the<br>distro's package - that way all dependancies will end up being satisifed<br>(both packages that your module depends on and packages that depend on
<br>your module)<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">I thought this information was so useful I have very quickly slapped into <a href="http://perl.net.au">perl.net.au</a> (see <a href="http://perl.net.au/wiki/Installing_Perl_Modules_on_Linux">
http://perl.net.au/wiki/Installing_Perl_Modules_on_Linux</a>). I did it very quickly so please correct, expand and make sure you get the credit for your quotes from this thread.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>-- <br>Alec Clews <
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