[ILUG] feckin' perl

[Niall O Broin]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 02:17:41PM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:

>  How do I use CPAN to install;  
>     ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/Term/TermReadKey-2.14.tar.gz
> 
>  I've tryed "install Term/TermReadKey" and about thirty combinations, and
> I'm getting nowhere :)

I've twice tried to use CPAN to install something small and the fscking
thing spent all day fetching this and that, culimnating in an attempt to
upgrade the version of Perl I was running. Screw that ! No, download
TermReadKey-2.14.tar.gz and do

tar xzf TermReadKey-2.14.tar.gz
cd TermReadKey-2.14 
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

I jsut did it from a TermReadKey-2.14.tar.gz that I found lying around
(under /root/.cpan, surprisingly enough - not! - hangover from my last
failed attempt with CPAN) and it took me about 1 minute. The CPAN module
sounds like a cute idea in principle, but in practice it seems like overkill
to me.




Regards,



Niall