It would be great if you could document the cpanm workflow for PDL. I'm only familiar with cpan but for many purposes, cpanm or CPANPLUS are supposed to be better (or at least the next generation).
Maybe a section on our wiki that could migrate into the web site at some point? --Chris On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Joel Berger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
