CPAN Usage for Perl Newbies

So, for some reason the magically perl Bundle::CPAN did not work on my system.

I've finally figured out how to install the perl modules manually.

Download the specific module from here:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/

Read the dependencies from the text file for the module.
Install any modules that the one you want to use needs.

So download (try wget). E.g.:
wget http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Mail/Mail-RBL-1.09.tgz

Untar, e.g.:
gzip -dc Mail-RBL-1.09.tar.gz | tar -x

Go into the new folder:
cd Mail-RBL-1.09

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test

if there are no errors:
make install

Tags: Pearl, perl, perle, cpan, dependency

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ID: 808
Author:
leonard
Date Updated:
2006-12-23 22:30:04
Date Created:
2006-12-23 22:30:04

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