[ILUG] perl

[Niall O Broin]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:23:46PM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:

>  Bah. I wanted to install "umodpack" for installing unreal tournament
> packages. It needs perl, and a few packages.
> 
>  So, I did;
> 
> cpan> install Data::Dumper
> Running make for G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz
> 
> Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get
>     ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz
> 
> System call "/usr/bin/lynx -source
> 'ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz'  >
> /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.1.tar"
> returned status 0 (wstat 2)
> Warning: expected file
> [/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz] doesn't exist
> 
>  You'll notice the first thing it did was download & install perl-5.6.1
> first. Is there anyway I can get it to stop that ?

Hah - I only wish. Every now and again I try the Cpan module again, because
it's a nice idea esp. when you want to try a new module, which may require
X, which may require Y . . . . .

However, every time I use it it decides that my Perl is out of data nad off
it goes. Fsck that for a game of dickybirds, so it's back to the good old

perl Makefile.pl;make;make test

Install whatever other modules  make test  reveals to be necessary, repeat
as needed, and finally make install - ah me, a working install module would
be nice.





Niall