APM: The proper way to use CPAN on a server

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Jonathan Scott Duff <duff at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Also, I often will run cpan thusly:
>>
>> $ PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 cpan Bundle::CPAN
>>
>> That causes cpan to accept the default answers to any prompts as it
>> installs the CPAN bundle.
>>
>
> Just to make sure: that should be
>
>    PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 cpan install Bundle::CPAN


Nope.  That's meant to be run from the command line using the "cpan" command
which doesn't take subcommands.  So cpan Bundle::CPAN from the command line
will install Bundle::CPAN.

-Scott





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