On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Dave Cross <davorg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/2/6 Norman Gaywood <ngaywood@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> Hi list, >> >> So whats the recommended way of installing perl modules in Fedora 10? > > rpm and/or yum > >> What we have been doing in the past is to install a perl-* rpm via yum >> if one is available for the module we want. >> >> If the module is not available via rpm, we use "perl -MCPAN -e shell" to >> install modules. > > I really don't recommend that. Mixing rpm-installed modules and > cpan-installed modules is very likely to lead to unhappiness. > > You may find my "Perl in RPM-Land" presentation interesting. > > http://www.slideshare.net/davorg/perl-in-rpmland-presentation > > Cheers, > I use cpan2rpm, you install cpan2rpm by yum install capan2rpm then for example: cpan2rpm -i Statistics::Distribution or cpan2rpm --no-sign -i Statistics::Regression I changed "Pod::Text" in /usr/bin/cpan2rpm to "Pod::Parser" It is very handy Y > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
