[CentOS] Perl Module Question

Mon Aug 3 21:03:06 UTC 2009
Christoph Maser <cmr at financial.com>

Am Montag, den 03.08.2009, 21:59 +0200 schrieb Joseph L. Casale:
> To safely make Perl modules from CPAN in Solaris, I used this procedure:
>
> mkdir /opt/cpan
> chmod 777 /opt/cpan
> chown joe:101 /opt/cpan
> PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB:/opt/cpan
> export PERL5LIB
> /usr/perl5/bin/perlgcc -MCPAN -e shell
>
> Also, ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm specifically had
> 'makepl_arg' => q[LIB=/opt/cpan PREFIX=/opt/cpan INSTALLMAN3DIR=/opt/cpan/man/man3],
>
> Does this make sense in CentOS as well when the modules just aren't available and using
> cpan2rpm has me chasing my tail endlessly on deps?
>
> Thanks!
> jlc

There is tons of perl module RPMs in rpmforge. We also take requests
there.
Chris


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