[pgh-pm] Perl packages

James Rose ceo at fat24.com
Fri Jan 6 10:16:23 PST 2006


On Friday, Jan 6, 2006, at 12:16 US/Eastern, Chris Winters wrote:
> On 1/6/06, Weber, Larry A <laweber at switch.com> wrote:
>> I am gradually moving my Perl scripts from a Windows PC to a PC 
>> running
>> Linux, and have a few questions related to package management.
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to PPM for Linux?
>
> As long as you have make and a compiler for modules with XS, the CPAN
> shell works very well -- IIRC modern Perls install a 'cpan' script at
> /usr/bin that will startup the shell for you, otherwise you need to
> do:
>
>> perl -MCPAN -e shell

Anyone using a Mac OS X might find it handy to cd ~ and pico your 
.loginrc file, adding the line:

alias cpan 'cd /usr/bin/ && sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell'

Then from ~ make sure to % source .loginrc

Then you can just type "cpan" from the terminal any time you want to 
install a perl module.



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