On 15 April 2010 21:23, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> 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. I don't know if this will solve your problem, but I'm surprised to hear about people still using the cpan command-line program. The CPANPLUS module has been included with Perl for several years and I recommend investigating its cpanp command-line program instead of cpan. And if you want something even more up to date, you can look at cpanminus - which is packaged as perl-App-cpanminus at my CPAN/RPM repository (http://rpm.mag-sol.com/). Finally, can I repeat the advice that other people have hinted at. Mixing CPAN-installed modules and RPM-installed modules in a single Centos installation is a really bad idea. I highly recommend using only RPM-packaged modules (and learning to build your own[1] for ones that you can't find elsewhere). Cheers, Dave... [1] http://www.slideshare.net/davorg/perl-in-rpmland-presentation