On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Ken Williams wrote:
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> On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 06:57 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
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> > Anyone successfully using CPAN and FINK together?
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> Yes, I use them both with no troubles.
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I'm trying to set up to use CPAN. I also use fink. I've not installed
Perl 5.8, which I see others say "Apple recommends".
a). What should I read to find the "apple recommends"? Or, more
generally, where's the User's Guide to Perl on OSX? I've used Perl
on SunOS for awhile, but never needed to use CPAN. Perldoc cpan
provides lots of useful information, but not specific to OS X,
like:
b). What are "appropriate" settings for the configuration?
I figured $HOME/.cpan would be fine for builds, etc. but I wasn't
sure what that would mean for where things get installed, etc. I,
too, am getting the "install Bundle Net" message from cpan when I
try to run it. I presume this means it doesn't know about
/System/Library/Perl/CPAN, indicating the configuration is wrong?
c). I presume the correct command to start things is "sudo perl -MCPAN
-shell"?
joe
