Re: [Mimedefang] newbie prerequisite install questions

[Michael Fox]

> On 21 Nov 2016, at 13:04, Michael Fox wrote:

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> Yes. *ALL* of those are Distribution names, which is why they don't use
> the :: module delimiter. You should be able to get them all using CPAN.

Thanks Bill.  That's exactly what I needed.

Michael


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Re: [Mimedefang] newbie prerequisite install questions

[Bill Cole]

On 21 Nov 2016, at 13:04, Michael Fox wrote:


Thanks Mickey.

That doesn't appear to be a "module", but rather an archive of 
multiple modules, right?

(I'm new to CPAN, too).


MailTools is a Distribution: a collection of related modules maintained 
as one project because they are interdependent. I cannot explain why the 
Download page shows it as MailTools-1. I don't expect that MD actually 
wants an ancient version 1.x, and I've seen no sign of trouble with the 
current version.


The Download page probably should say Distributions rather than Modules, 
since all of those are Distributions.


So, is the instruction to download, unpack and install this archive, 
using sudo?


You can find a Distribution's author/distribution-version ID in an 
interactive CPAN shell with 'i //' e.g.:


cpan[1]> i /MailTools/
Distribution id = M/MA/MARKOV/MailTools-2.18.tar.gz
CPAN_USERID  MARKOV (Mark Overmeer )
	CONTAINSMODS Mail::Address Mail::Cap Mail::Field 
Mail::Field::AddrList Mail::Field::Date Mail::Field::Generic 
Mail::Filter Mail::Header Mail::Internet Mail::Mailer 
Mail::Mailer::qmail Mail::Mailer::rfc822 Mail::Mailer::sendmail 
Mail::Mailer::smtp Mail::Mailer::smtp::pipe Mail::Mailer::smtps 
Mail::Mailer::smtps::pipe Mail::Mailer::testfile 
Mail::Mailer::testfile::pipe Mail::Send Mail::Util


And then (if the CPAN shell was started as root) install that with:

cpan[2]> install MARKOV/MailTools-2.18.tar.gz

And, for my other question, should I install the other modules listed 
on the Download page using

(sudo) CPAN?


Yes. *ALL* of those are Distribution names, which is why they don't use 
the :: module delimiter. You should be able to get them all using CPAN.

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Re: [Mimedefang] newbie prerequisite install questions

[Michael Fox]

Thanks Mickey.

That doesn't appear to be a "module", but rather an archive of multiple 
modules, right?
(I'm new to CPAN, too).

So, is the instruction to download, unpack and install this archive, using sudo?

And, for my other question, should I install the other modules listed on the 
Download page using (sudo) CPAN?

Michael

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> On Nov 21, 2016, at 9:16 AM, Michael Fox <n...@mefox.org> wrote:
> > Then “MailTools-1” links to http://search.cpan.org/search?q=MailTools,
> which has 28 pages of modules, none of which seem to be named “MailTools”
> or “Mail::Tools”.  I just don’t know what I’m supposed to do there.
> Please explain.
> 
> Change your CPAN search to Distributions only.
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=dist=MailTools
> 
> That gives you http://search.cpan.org/~markov/MailTools-2.18/
> 
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Re: [Mimedefang] newbie prerequisite install questions

[Mickey Hill]

On Nov 21, 2016, at 9:16 AM, Michael Fox  wrote:
> Then “MailTools-1” links to http://search.cpan.org/search?q=MailTools, which 
> has 28 pages of modules, none of which seem to be named “MailTools” or 
> “Mail::Tools”.  I just don’t know what I’m supposed to do there.  Please 
> explain.

Change your CPAN search to Distributions only.

http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=dist=MailTools

That gives you http://search.cpan.org/~markov/MailTools-2.18/

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