On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Brian Carper <briancar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ruby: gem install X > Perl: perl -MCPAN -e shell, then "install X"
If you're just installing CPAN module X, then on most installations all you need to run is this: cpan X You can still go into the interactive shell if you want, usually by just running "cpan" with no args. You don't have to do that to install a module, but if you need to find a module whose exact name you don't know, or if a module fails to build and you want to poke around the build tree, etc, the cpan shell is handy. And other languages have their own flavors - PHP has PEAR/PECL, while Python is trying to get there with PyPI, but it's not quite there yet. The problem with CPAN is that many modules require compiling native code (C in this case), which means that just running cpan won't work if you don't have C dev tools installed. You can often get modules with prebuilt binaries, but the mechanism is platform-dependent. For instance, each module is its own apt package for Debian/Ubuntu, while ActivePerl on Windows uses its own Perl Package Manager (ppm.exe). -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
