Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Mike Wright <mike.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >> I'm trying to install a perl module without any luck. Isn't this stuff >> supposed to work out of the gate? Is there some sort of fedora / yum >> way to to this? Basic instructions for perl either return nothing or a >> failure message. >> >> perl -Mcpan -e shell > > It is CPAN, not cpan (case matters). However, your first step should be > to see if the module you want is available packaged for Fedora. You can > do that from the command-line as root with: > > yum install 'perl(Some::Module)' > > If it isn't found, you can then use CPAN to install it. You may need to > install the CPAN module first though with: > > yum install 'perl(CPAN)' > @kevin, @chris Thank you both. I now have NetAddr:IP and CPAN and know how to do this the fedora way. I guess this is somewhat akin to the way an apache installation is extended: different builds for each module/option that can then be added. Then things can be add from the o/s level rather than having the users build/compile/etc. Very cool. (I do need to find out where all this is doc'd, tho ;) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
