Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

On 4/15/2010 3:23 PM, Alan McKay wrote:

Hey folks,

Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this? If so, maybe someone can point me to it.

Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of CPAN modules, and the first basic problem I am coming up against is that the "cpan" command seems to always return 0 regardless of whether or not the install completed.

Google does not bring up a whole lot of help for me here, but I have to think this problem has already been solved.

Thanks for any guidance you can give.

Things sometimes get ugly when you mix CPAN/rpm installs. Have you checked epel/rpmforge/etc. for the modules you need?