Re: [Cooker] Crufty Perl Installation in 7.2

2000-11-04 Thread Daniel Woods
> I believe you need to get > perl-devel-5.600-17mdk > to have the *.h files it may be looking for. I should have double-checked first, but it appears that there is no devel package as I thought. I don't have it on my system and 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' works for me. Thanks... Dan.

Re: [Cooker] Crufty Perl Installation in 7.2

2000-11-03 Thread Daniel Woods
> One of the biggest timesavers that I had come across is years was the CPAN > shell for installing perl modules (perl -MCPAN -e shell), ... Yes, very nice ! > ... perl is broken on Mandrake 7.2, I am kind of at a loss here. Short of > removing everything perl and perl related and recompiling pe

[Cooker] Crufty Perl Installation in 7.2

2000-11-03 Thread Aaron Newsome
I am wondering about the perl installation that comes with Mandrake 7.2. Apparently it is doing something very strange, something I've never seen before. Specifically it is unable to install any of the modules on CPAN because,.. usually terminating with a message similar to: "Error: Unable to lo