Chas. Owens wrote:
On Apr 16, 2008, at 13:33, Monty wrote:
Hope this is the right forum for this.
I recently downloaded Curses-1.23.tar from CPAN for installation on to
my Solaris 8 system. I installed the module in the same area as all
my other perl modules: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5, but I noticed
there's also a directory named /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl.
Under the directory 5.8.5, I untarred the file and it created a
directory named Curse-1.23 and put everything under it. I moved the
Curses.pm module up to the 5.8.5 directory and renamed the Curses-1.23
directory to Curses, so I can "use Curses" in my scripts.
Is this the correct way to install this module? My scripts can't seem
to find it.
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No, this is not the proper way to install a Perl module. You have
four common routes to installing a module:
1. become root and use CPAN
2. become root and install manually
3. use CPAN as a normal user and set PERL5_LIB (or use the lib pragma)
4. install manually as a normal user and set PERL5_LIB (or use the lib
pragma)
1. become root and use CPAN:
su -
perl -MCPAN -e "install Curses"
#answer all of the questions, the defaults tend to be correct
2. become root and install manually
su -
gzip -dc module-version.tar.gz | tar xvf
cd module-version
perl Makefile.pl
make
make test
make install
#stop if at any step where you get errors
3. use CPAN as a normal user and set PERL5_LIB (or use the lib pragma)
#like 1., but you should set PREFIX=/some/directory/you/countrol
perl -MCPAN -e "install Curses"
echo "export PERL5_LIB=/some/directory/you/countrol" >> .profile
4. install manually as a normal user and set PERL5_LIB (or use the lib
pragma)
gzip -dc module-version.tar.gz | tar xvf
cd module-version
perl Makefile.pl PREFIX=/some/directory/you/countrol
make
make test
make install
#stop if at any step where you get errors
echo "export PERL5_LIB=/some/directory/you/countrol" >> .profile
I am planning to use 3 or 4.. as I am not root user on this machine.
Problem is, this is solaris and there is only gcc available. What is the
method to say use gcc ?
Also, for 3), am I suppose to export PERL5_LIB before doing the perl
-MCPAN........ ?
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