-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:13 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CPAN error
On 9/4/07, Mark Quitoriano markquitoriano@gmail.com 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.