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Re: How to install perl modules?
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:52:02 -0700
- Subject: Re: How to install perl modules?
- References: <20050525033549.23193.qmail@web50401.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Manuel Tejada wrote:
> Somebody can tell me from what URL I must to download
> a perl module and how to install it in Cygwing?
You use CPAN. "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Foo::Bar'" or "perl -MCPAN -e
shell". There is no URL to know, it takes care of all of that.
http://cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html
> In pure Windows is easy is you have Perl from
> ActiveState but Perl installed in Cygwin doesnt have
> the ppm Manager.
To me (and perhaps others) that's a feature and not a bug. I can't
stand that ppm junk.
Brian
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