Hunting The Muse: Jaguar CPAN

January 16, 2003

Jaguar CPAN

To install more perl libraries on Jaguar 10.2.3 using CPAN:

Do not use the default installed version of CPAN because it will try and force you to upgrade to perl 5.8.0, which will mess up the rest of the computer.

Instead, go to cpan.org, and download the most up-to-date version of CPAN - currently 1.63. Download the complete package (cpanxxx.tar.gz), not just CPAN.pm. Go through the normal perl install routine (perl Makefile.pl, make, sudo make install).

Then you can start up CPAN and start installing new perl modules to your heart's content. I installed Net::Blogger last night. Yay me. Posted by Curt at January 16, 2003 01:51 PM