From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8016 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Wiedmann Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: perl question Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 01:13:10 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020525231310.GA6313@miwie.in-berlin.de> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020526002356.02b962d8@remote-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398451 24105 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020526002356.02b962d8@remote-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8016 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8016 * Hans Hagen [020526 00:26]: > I want to install a perl/dbi/sql script on the web server, but it looks > like redhat comes with a pretty poor perl installed. So, i need to install > lots of modules, each which misses other ones; so i wonder if there is a > more convenient way to install missing perl modules (i'm acccustomed to the > rather complete activestate under windows, as well as the perl module > manager, so i wonder if there is something similar for linux) Install the 'CPAN' module and afterwards you can do something like $ perl -MCPAN -e shell which gives you a kind of shell and if you try to 'install PACKAGE' this will automatically install all other missing packages too. Michael -- mw@miwie.in-berlin.de http://www.miwie.org mw@miwie.org