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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jim Perrin
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:13 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: CPAN error
On 9/4/07, Mark Quitoriano <markquitoriano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all im not sure if this is the right mailing list but im using
centos
> anyway. i run CPAN by perl -MCPAN -e shell and got through the first
time
> configuration and after selecting the mirror sites i got this error
and i
> can't get any modules to be installed. I haven't encountered this
before and
> not very familiar with cpan.
CPAN is a horrible way to install software on a centos box, as it
completely bypasses the package management system. Because of this,
you can end up with unmet dependencies when things are really
installed, centos updates to perl may break because cpan updated a
core component, etc.
Mostly, just don't do it. Use rpmforge or other 3rd party repositories
to install perl modules.
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Is this true for adding perl components not in CENTOS??
If so - what is your correct way to add a package ?
Dan
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