I'd be happy to do that. I made a blog post a while back that starts the conversation, http://joelslinux.blogspot.com/2011/05/installing-pdl.html . I made it because I was having problems with installing PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT.
I guess I'm off to get myself wiki-editor-ified Joel On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
