LPM: CPAN Module

Rich Bowen rbowen at rcbowen.com
Fri Jan 14 15:28:51 CST 2000


Gregg Casillo wrote:
> 
> I thought this might be appropriate considering how we've discussed
> modules recently. For those familiar with Win32's Perl package manager
> (ppm), you may find this module worthwhile if you use Perl on a *nix
> box. It automates the module installation much like ppm does. Here's the
> top of the readme:
> 
> NAME
>     CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
...

I just recently wrote the following:

http://www.rcbowen.com/imho/perl/modules.html

which talks about installing modules on Unix and NT, and covers CPAN.pm
for those that have never used it.

Rich
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