[VPM] 1. Ubuntu + CPAN ? (Lloyd Budd)

[Peter Scott]

At 12:57 PM 10/10/2007, Charles Frank wrote:
>I have run up against this issue a few times in the past.  I usually 
>opt to keep my development application libs completely separate from 
>system libs based on application divide.

Ah yes, this is a very good point.  The "system" perl is part of a 
distro and should be unmolested.  So I always leave it alone and build 
my own perl from source and put it in /usr/local/bin.  And that is very 
easy too:

         su
         mkdir /usr/local/src/perl
         cd /usr/local/src/perl
         wget http://www.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz
         tar zxf stable.tar.gz
         rm stable.tar.gz
         cd perl-*
         ./Configure -des
         make test install

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