I would go a slightly different route, I would use `cpanm` which, if you don't have it already, follow the instructions here https://metacpan.org/module/App::cpanminus, or just do (assuming you hace curl)
curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo App::cpanminus Now comes the easy part, to install dev releases of anything, often even minutes after they are posted to PAUSE, find them on metacpan, for PDL 2.4.9_16 its https://metacpan.org/release/CHM/PDL-2.4.9_016/ , and get the download link on the left. Now run sudo cpanm http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/C/CH/CHM/PDL-2.4.9_016.tar.gz cpanm is a great little CPAN client which does more with less configuration than CPAN.pm IMO. One thing it does is suppress most of the output of installation. For a big module like PDL, and especially with a dev release, you might want to see that output, so use the -v (verbose) flag if you like. sudo cpanm -v http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/C/CH/CHM/PDL-2.4.9_016.tar.gz Cheers, Joel Berger On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:54 AM, David Mertens <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:10 AM, MARK BAKER <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I know this sounds noobish but how do you get this from cpan can someone >> can someone give me step by step instructions ??? >> >> Thanks & Cheers >> >> --Mark > > > Instructions were in Chris's original announcement. Fire up cpan and type > these: > > > cpan> get CHM/PDL-2.4.9_016.tar.gz > cpan> make CHM/PDL-2.4.9_016.tar.gz > cpan> test CHM/PDL-2.4.9_016.tar.gz > cpan> look CHM/PDL-2.4.9_016.tar.gz > > That 'look' will put you in the current CPAN build directory. From there, > you can type 'make install'. You'll need administrative privileges to do > that unless you use local::lib or perlbrew. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
