Hi Chris, I just unboxed my old untouched sf.net account, brushed off
the dust, and now I need the keys. I know it says to email Derek Lamb,
but since I know you are near a computer now ...

Anyway my username is, cryptically, joelberger :
https://sourceforge.net/users/joelberger

Thanks,
Joel

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Joel Berger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>>
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