Re: Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

2020-11-16 Thread Mike Castle
I would not be surprised if the version number indicated the module in not Pure Perl, but rather includes some C source code. Which would then need to be compiled specifically for the version of Perl installed. mrc

Re: Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

2020-11-15 Thread Joel Roth
get the modules you want installed using root and the cpan client. Another way is to use a module called local::lib, that let's you have a tree of perl modules in an unprivileged directory (by default $HOME/perl5). It requires setting some environment variables. Then you need a cpan client

Re: Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

2020-11-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 08:14:05PM -0500, Michael Grant wrote: > > Well, that would do the job thoughtlessly. It might backfire > > spectacularly. […] > apt has an excellent reputation, I'm not sure I see why mechanizing > such a process as apt does should be necessarily be bad. I'm not

Re: Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

2020-11-15 Thread Michael Grant
izing such a process as apt does should be necessarily be bad. I'm not talking about blind nightly updates. If this is truely the best way at the moment to keep perl modules maintainable, I will try it. Thanks. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

2020-11-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Michael Grant wrote: > > cpan2deb takes a CPAN module and builds it as a Debian package. > > Use a common suffix like -mgrant and you can spot these in > > package listings. > > > > When you upgrade, build new versions of all the -mgrant > > packages. > > Thanks. So in one way this makes it

Re: Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

2020-11-15 Thread Michael Grant
> cpan2deb takes a CPAN module and builds it as a Debian package. > Use a common suffix like -mgrant and you can spot these in > package listings. > > When you upgrade, build new versions of all the -mgrant > packages. Thanks. So in one way this makes it easier to remove the module which cpan

Re: Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

2020-11-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Michael Grant wrote: > I try to keep my systems as up to date as possible. I use apt update > regularly. When I can install a perl module from apt, I usually do so > because then apt update picks up new versions of it. When I install > something which has a dependency on a perl module in

Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

2020-11-15 Thread Michael Grant
this version based directory on Debian? Should I worry about this? (this may be more a CPAN question than a Debian question to be honest). So my question is, is there a recommended, maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian that are not installed by apt-get such that things get updated

Info on missing packages (libdancer2-xxx-perl modules)?

2017-01-09 Thread Richard Hector
Hi, I'm not really sure how to phrase my question - or search for the answers I know I've seen here ... I quite often find myself wanting to know about package that I think were, or should be, in debian, but for some reason they're not. Since they're not there, the packages page can't find them.

parallel perl (was Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy)

2014-06-29 Thread Joel Rees
Joel Roth's post on /usr/local reminded me of something about using cpan and perl. I used to use perl on Mac OS X. About the first word of advice we used to give on the Mac OS X perl mail list was, do NOT overwrite the system perl. Install another perl interpreter separately, in parallel with the

Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-28 Thread slitt
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:25:41 -0700 David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: On 06/27/2014 09:15 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: For the record, you might find it more useful to check if Debian has a package first, before resorting to CPAN. +1 I've destabilized Debian stable with

Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 09:14:09AM -0400, slitt wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:25:41 -0700 David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: On 06/27/2014 09:15 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: For the record, you might find it more useful to check if Debian has a package first, before

Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-28 Thread slitt
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 01:59:31 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 09:14:09AM -0400, slitt wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:25:41 -0700 David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: On 06/27/2014 09:15 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: For the

Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 28 June 2014 18:07:19 slitt wrote: Speaking of Red Hat, there's a Linux group called LEAP, and 60% of their technical messages boil down to Fedora screwed me again!. Careful Steve! You'll be accused of sniping again. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-28 Thread slitt
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:01:09 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 28 June 2014 18:07:19 slitt wrote: Speaking of Red Hat, there's a Linux group called LEAP, and 60% of their technical messages boil down to Fedora screwed me again!. Careful Steve! You'll be accused of

Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-28 Thread Joel Roth
;-) Installing new modules in Debian as root using a CPAN client (cpan or cpanm) is rather uncertain, as modules get into /usr/local. The Debian package management system knows nothing about them, and so the system can lose its consistency. As a consequence, if your application requires perl

Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-27 Thread Andrew Wood
Im not experienced with Perl so I dont know much about CPAN but on Jessie I have been able to install DBI and the DBD::mysqlPP modules using cpan DBI cpan DBD::mysqlPP however on Wheezy I just get the following... snipped Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good I see you're using

Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-27 Thread Andrew Wood
Sorry just worked this out, the system I was on hadnt had make or g++ install. Whoops On 27/06/2014 15:59, Andrew Wood wrote: Im not experienced with Perl so I dont know much about CPAN but on Jessie I have been able to install DBI and the DBD::mysqlPP modules using cpan DBI cpan DBD::mysqlPP

Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-27 Thread Darac Marjal
has a package first, before resorting to CPAN. Debian usually refers to perl modules as libpackage-subpackage-perl (so DBI becomes libdbi-perl, DBB::Mysql becomes libdb-mysql-perl and so on). The advantage of getting the package from Debian is the same as for any other software: updates come

Re: Problems installing Perl modules with CPAN on Wheezy

2014-06-27 Thread David Christensen
On 06/27/2014 09:15 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: For the record, you might find it more useful to check if Debian has a package first, before resorting to CPAN. +1 I've destabilized Debian stable with non-Debian software, including CPAN modules. Now I am loath to install anything except via

Perl modules

2008-12-08 Thread M.Lewis
Recently, I needed to install a perl module that I was not able to find with synaptic or aptitude using the 'normal' repositories. I believe the module was File::Find::Path. I know I can install this module via CPAN. Is this the recommended method when a module is not available in the

Re: Perl modules

2008-12-08 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:04:28 -0600 M.Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, I needed to install a perl module that I was not able to find with synaptic or aptitude using the 'normal' repositories. I believe the module was File::Find::Path. I know I can install this module via CPAN. Is

Re: Perl modules

2008-12-08 Thread Ken Irving
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 09:04:28PM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: Recently, I needed to install a perl module that I was not able to find with synaptic or aptitude using the 'normal' repositories. I believe the module was File::Find::Path. I know I can install this module via CPAN. Is this the

Re: Perl modules

2008-12-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 19:15, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:04:28 -0600 M.Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, I needed to install a perl module that I was not able to find with synaptic or aptitude using the 'normal' repositories. I believe the module was

Re: Perl modules

2008-12-08 Thread M.Lewis
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 19:15, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:04:28 -0600 M.Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, I needed to install a perl module that I was not able to find with synaptic or aptitude using the 'normal' repositories. I believe

Re: Perl modules

2008-12-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
::Path. I know I can install this module via CPAN. Is this the recommended method when a module is not available in the 'normal' repositories? Are you sure about the name? The standard perl-modules package includes File::Path and File::Find, but I can't find (in CPAN) File::Find::Path . I

Re: Perl modules

2008-12-08 Thread M.Lewis
was File::Find::Path. I know I can install this module via CPAN. Is this the recommended method when a module is not available in the 'normal' repositories? Are you sure about the name? The standard perl-modules package includes File::Path and File::Find, but I can't find (in CPAN) File::Find

perl modules

2007-10-01 Thread Richard
Where do I find the perl modules, Net-Telnet,TimeDate and a few others. Are they on a debian repository, or do I have to download from cpan ? apt-get doesn't find anything -- Best Wishes Richard Bown ~~~ Registered Linux User 365161 OS Mandriva 2007.1

Re: perl modules

2007-10-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:23:51PM +0100, Richard wrote: Where do I find the perl modules, Net-Telnet,TimeDate and a few others. Are they on a debian repository, or do I have to download from cpan ? apt-get doesn't find anything -- apt-cache search perl|grep -i timedate This will find

Re: perl modules

2007-10-01 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:23:51 +0100 Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Where do I find the perl modules, Net-Telnet,TimeDate and a few others. Are they on a debian repository, or do I have to download from cpan ? apt-get doesn't find anything Maybe they're not packaged

Re: perl modules

2007-10-01 Thread Richard
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:29:26 -0400 Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:23:51PM +0100, Richard wrote: Where do I find the perl modules, Net-Telnet,TimeDate and a few others. Are they on a debian repository, or do I have to download from cpan ? apt-get

how to request add new perl modules

2007-06-15 Thread linux china
hello, Could I request to add new Perl modules which is not supported by Debian? such as Inline::Java. If yes, please let me know how. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to request add new perl modules

2007-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
linux china wrote: Could I request to add new Perl modules which is not supported by Debian? such as Inline::Java. If yes, please let me know how. Yes this is possible. But first let me talk about dh-make-perl. apt-cache show dh-make-perl Description: Create debian packages from perl

Re: how to request add new perl modules

2007-06-15 Thread Jostein Elvaker Haande
linux china wrote this at Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:06:23PM +0800 Could I request to add new Perl modules which is not supported by Debian? such as Inline::Java. Of course you can add new perl modules that are not available in Debian by means of pre packaged .deb-files. You have to ways of doing

perl modules Tie::CPHash

2006-01-31 Thread linux china
Hi, I am using 3.1 and searchperl modulesTie::CPHash, it seems that I have to intall it from CPAN, I don't find it by apt-cache command.

Re: Install Perl modules the Debian way

2005-07-06 Thread Adam Funk
Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 04.07.2005 at 09:10 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: What is the Debian way to install Perl modules? I need to have several modules on my Testing box and then wondered if it would be better to use cpan installer or any kind of Debian way to do it. If I

Install Perl modules the Debian way

2005-07-04 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, What is the Debian way to install Perl modules? I need to have several modules on my Testing box and then wondered if it would be better to use cpan installer or any kind of Debian way to do it. If I have the choice I'd rather follow the Debian way... Is there any? Thank you? -- Miroir de

Re: Install Perl modules the Debian way

2005-07-04 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On 2005-07-04, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, What is the Debian way to install Perl modules? I need to have several modules on my Testing box and then wondered if it would be better to use cpan installer or any kind of Debian way to do it. If I have the choice I'd rather follow

Re: Install Perl modules the Debian way

2005-07-04 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 04.07.2005 at 09:10 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: What is the Debian way to install Perl modules? I need to have several modules on my Testing box and then wondered if it would be better to use cpan installer or any kind of Debian way to do it. If I have the choice I'd

Re: Install Perl modules the Debian way

2005-07-04 Thread Adam Funk
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: What is the Debian way to install Perl modules? I need to have several modules on my Testing box and then wondered if it would be better to use cpan installer or any kind of Debian way to do it. If I have the choice I'd rather follow the Debian way

Re: perl-modules(sem anexos)

2005-03-19 Thread Marlon Nerling
a installacao dos perl-modules Preciso instalar os seguintes modulos Tk X11::Motif Term::Gnuplot PostScript::Simple PostScript::Graph PostScript::File GDS2 Bit::Vector Statistics::Descriptvive Statistics::Descriptvive::Discrete Storable ja li : man perl man cpan man cpanp http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl

perl-modules

2005-03-18 Thread Marlon Nerling
Ciao meu povo, agora tou eu na corda .. Alguem tem experiencia com a installacao dos perl-modules Preciso instalar os seguintes modulos Tk X11::Motif Term::Gnuplot PostScript::Simple PostScript::Graph PostScript::File GDS2 Bit::Vector Statistics::Descriptvive Statistics::Descriptvive::Discrete

Re: perl-modules(sem anexos)

2005-03-18 Thread Marlon Nerling
Ciao meu povo, agora tou eu na corda .. Alguem tem experiencia com a installacao dos perl-modules Preciso instalar os seguintes modulos Tk X11::Motif Term::Gnuplot PostScript::Simple PostScript::Graph PostScript::File GDS2 Bit::Vector Statistics::Descriptvive Statistics::Descriptvive::Discrete

Standard way of adding perl modules in debian

2004-10-18 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Whats the standard way of adding perl modules in debian from cpan? (sid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Standard way of adding perl modules in debian

2004-10-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 06:04 -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Whats the standard way of adding perl modules in debian from cpan? (sid) apt-get install dh-make-perl Read the docs... and much joy will be had. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux

which perl modules have packages?

2004-08-25 Thread John Harrold
Howdy once again. So I've been playing around and I noticed that some perl modules are not packaged. Specifically I've noticed Term::Interact and XML::Writer::String are not available using apt-get under Sarge. It might be that I missed the package, but I don't believe these are available. Can

Re: which perl modules have packages?

2004-08-25 Thread Loki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, John Harrold wrote: Can someone tell me what metric is used to determine which modules are included? Well, first you need somebody to volunteer to maintain the package. :) Is it version numbers? Nope. There are lots of

Re: Question on Perl modules

2003-12-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Moseley wrote: Filename: pool/main/libc/libclass-container-perl/libclass-container-perl_0.07-1_all.deb Note the version. But Bricolage install says it needs a newer version: Checking that Class::Container version is = 0.09... not ok. Ok, so I grab the latest version from CPAN

Question on Perl modules

2003-12-01 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm trying to understand *why* a package was downgraded: I was installing Bricolage that depends on a bunch of Perl modules, one of which is libclass-container-perl. In debian sid there is: $ apt-cache show libclass-container-perl | grep Filename Filename: pool/main/libc/libclass-container

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Leif B. Kristensen wrote: Hi, I'm still fairly new to Debian and am trying to find my way around the system. I've got some gripes about the naming practice and poor documentation of Perl modules. As an example, I started out today to find a package which I have used a lot on my W2K system, named

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-22 Thread Richard Downer
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:11:11 +0200, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? Most Perl packages in Debian are named based upon the CPAN package name. Some examples: DBD::Pg -

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-22 Thread Paul Talacko
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:43:12AM +0100, Richard Downer wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:11:11 +0200, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? Most Perl packages in Debian

Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
Hi, I'm still fairly new to Debian and am trying to find my way around the system. I've got some gripes about the naming practice and poor documentation of Perl modules. As an example, I started out today to find a package which I have used a lot on my W2K system, named DBD::XBase. It's

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Leif B. Kristensen: However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? Shouldn't the original module name be referred to on the package page?

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:29:24 -0500, Nathan Poznick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Leif B. Kristensen: However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? Shouldn't the original module name be referred to on

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Leif B. Kristensen: Ahem. So, in order to find one package of interest, I should install a random number of packages and read the documentation afterwards? Or, maybe I could run an apt-get install * and be finished with it once and for all? Thank you for a really imaginative

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:33:30 -0500, Nathan Poznick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You asked what you should do to read the documentation from a package. If you want to read a package's documentation, you should install or at least download the package. Not rocket science there. If your intent is to

Instalando e configurando perl e perl-modules

2003-07-18 Thread Luiz Antonio
Olah pessoal, Estou precisando instalar o mknbi, mas para isso ha dependencias. As dependencias sao perl e perl-modules, porem quando tento instalar um desses pacotes, odpkg diz que ha dependencia do outro pacote. Por exemplo: instalando o pacote perl, existe a dependencia do pacote perl

Re: Anyone using Ricochet? (and installing perl modules)

2003-06-26 Thread Toens Bueker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It requires a few Perl modules that are not bundled for Debian. Is there a *recommended* way to install Perl modules with Debian. Do people use the CPAN module (or install manually) or should modules be made into debs and then installed? Definetly yes. Use dh-make

Anyone using Ricochet? (and installing perl modules)

2003-06-25 Thread moseley
Anyone using Ricochet for looking up addresses bassed on Received headers? http://www.vipul.net/ricochet/download.html I'm curious how well it works. It requires a few Perl modules that are not bundled for Debian. Is there a *recommended* way to install Perl modules with Debian. Do people

Re: Perl Modules and CPAN

2003-02-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm finding that a lot of times I end up installing perl modules from CPAN in order to obtain stable versions or versions with functionality that I need. The problem that I run into with this method is that I end up with either two sets of software

Re: perl modules ?

2001-11-18 Thread Greg Lopp
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 05:44:24PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:47:55PM +, Irvine Russell wrote: Hello all. I wanted to use a small script that I found on the internet, and it says that I would need to have the following modules inorder for it to

Re: perl modules ?

2001-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:05:56PM -0500, Greg Lopp wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 05:44:24PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Or use the CPAN module to download, build, test, install these packages. The interface leaves a little to be desired, but it does have some dependency checking.

perl modules ?

2001-11-16 Thread Irvine Russell
Hello all. I wanted to use a small script that I found on the internet, and it says that I would need to have the following modules inorder for it to run: Net::Telnet; Mail::Sendmail; Getopt::Std; Text::CSV_XS; 1) How would I check whether I have these modules or not, and 2) what

Re: perl modules ?

2001-11-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:47:55PM +, Irvine Russell wrote: Hello all. I wanted to use a small script that I found on the internet, and it says that I would need to have the following modules inorder for it to run: Net::Telnet; Mail::Sendmail; Getopt::Std; Text::CSV_XS; A

perl modules in general

2001-04-11 Thread Stan Brown
I was looking around in dselct, and I did not see much in the way of perl modules (no cpan.pm for instance). Since I would really like to use the Debina wya to insatll as much as possible, I thought that I would ask about thsi, before just rushing off and grabing the ones I need, and installling

Re: perl modules in general

2001-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking around in dselct, and I did not see much in the way of perl modules (no cpan.pm for instance). Since I would really like to use the Debina wya to insatll as much as possible, I thought that I would ask about thsi, before just rushing off

Re: perl modules in general

2001-04-11 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Apr 11 13:36:46 2001 Colin Watson wrote... Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking around in dselct, and I did not see much in the way of perl modules (no cpan.pm for instance). Since I would really like to use the Debina wya to insatll as much as possible, I thought that I

Re: perl modules in general

2001-04-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:16:26PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: However, dselect tells me that I have both perl-5.005, and perl-5.005-base installed, and the installer script still says it can't find the needed modules. The it tries to install (or maybe configure) cpan.pm.

Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules

2000-11-17 Thread Ken Januski
Hi I downloaded msql-mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz today from CPAN. But when I ran make I got these errors: LD_RUN_PATH -/usr/local/. cc -o /blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so -shared -L/usr/local/lib dbdimp.o mysql.o -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -/mysqlclient -lm -lz

Re: Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules

2000-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
Ken Januski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded msql-mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz today from CPAN. But when I ran make I got these errors: LD_RUN_PATH -/usr/local/. cc -o /blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so -shared -L/usr/local/lib dbdimp.o mysql.o -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/lib/mysql

Re: Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules

2000-11-17 Thread Ken Januski
Thanks Colin, that solved the problem. ken - Original Message - From: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules Ken Januski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded msql

mysql-perl modules

2000-11-08 Thread Eileen Orbell
Does anyone know where I can get the deb files DBI and DBD modules to connect perl to mysql? I know the tar is available on mysql.com but would rather install the .deb versions. Thanks Eileen Orbell Software Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

Re: mysql-perl modules

2000-11-08 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:57:24AM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the deb files DBI and DBD modules to connect perl to mysql? apt-get install libdbd-mysql-perl -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n,

Re: mysql-perl modules

2000-11-08 Thread Damien
apt-get install libdbd-mysql-perl or better yet, teach them how to find it themselves. apt-cache search mysql | grep perl should do the trick cheers -- Damien [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'together alone' pgpGoI8nZ3Z0M.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: how to handle perl modules not debianed

2000-09-26 Thread Bernd Worsch
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:48:24PM -0500, will trillich wrote: good question. i wonder about that, too. and i just thought of a way to test it. find a perl lib that debian DOES have packaged, but use CPAN to download and install it. test it to make sure all is well. you might munge

how to handle perl modules not debianed

2000-09-25 Thread Bernd Worsch
Hi There! I changed to debian (potato) recently and am trying to get familiar with it. At the moment i wonder how to handle perl modules i need, that are not available as debian packages. Question is: Can i safely use Perl::CPAN module to get theese without breaking update/upgrade capabilities

Re: how to handle perl modules not debianed

2000-09-25 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:25:46PM +0200, Bernd Worsch wrote: Hi There! I changed to debian (potato) recently and am trying to get familiar with it. At the moment i wonder how to handle perl modules i need, that are not available as debian packages. Question is: Can i safely use Perl

Re: how to handle perl modules not debianed

2000-09-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:48:24PM -0500, will trillich wrote: good question. i wonder about that, too. I've been wondering that too. The Debian support for the CPAN is minimal at best, so I've already built in several modules to my 5.005_03 distro. I'm curious what will happen when I

Re: Debian Perl Modules

2000-03-24 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:10:00AM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote I was taking a look at the perl modules on my debian system, and I noticed that there are a couple of Debian perl modules. In fact I once built a newer version of perl on my debian system, and I noticed that apt, and I believe

Re: Debian Perl Modules

2000-03-24 Thread Brian Lavender
I still have a question regarding the debian perl modules. It appears that dpkg and apt have perl modules. If I went in and replace perl with a newer version from source, I would have to rebuild those modules. If I look at my libraries of my Potatoe installation I see some Debian perl modules. You

Re: Debian Perl Modules

2000-03-24 Thread Brian Lavender
regarding the debian perl modules. It appears that dpkg and apt have perl modules. If I went in and replace perl with a newer version from source, I would have to rebuild those modules. If I look at my libraries of my Potatoe installation I see some Debian perl modules. You see

Debian Perl Modules

2000-03-23 Thread Brian Lavender
I was taking a look at the perl modules on my debian system, and I noticed that there are a couple of Debian perl modules. In fact I once built a newer version of perl on my debian system, and I noticed that apt, and I believe dpkg stopped working. My Question: Is it possible to build a new

App for creating .deb files from perl Modules

1999-10-12 Thread John Foster
I am seeking an application for creating .deb files from perl modules. Does any one know of something like this? I need something on the order of Alien. Thanks! -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173

Re: App for creating .deb files from perl Modules

1999-10-12 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, John Foster wrote: I am seeking an application for creating .deb files from perl modules. Does any one know of something like this? I need something on the order of Alien. Thanks! If the perl module is from CPAN, you can just about take

Re: App for creating .deb files from perl Modules

1999-10-12 Thread John Foster
is my problem. Maybe you can suggest a way around it. I have a very stable Slink production server that I host a web site on. I was trying to implement a shopping cart system, MiniVend, and get it to run using .dbf (Xbase) files. It requires several perl modules that are not available in Debian

Re: App for creating .deb files from perl Modules

1999-10-12 Thread David Coe
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] unless there is some way to make dselect apt recognize that the required packages are installed, though not where debian expects them. [...] Take a look at the debian package equivs -- it was made for that; you must be careful with the

newbie q about perl modules

1999-07-23 Thread Larry Huffman
I suspect I already know the answer to this, but I'll ask anyway just to make sure. What is the proper way to obtain and install perl modules for a Debian system? Should one first see if the module has been packaged and, if so, install it via apt-get? If a module's not packaged, then I assume

Re: newbie q about perl modules

1999-07-23 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 04:47:43AM -0400, Larry Huffman wrote: I suspect I already know the answer to this, but I'll ask anyway just to make sure. What is the proper way to obtain and install perl modules for a Debian system? Should one first see if the module has been packaged and, if so

Re: newbie q about perl modules

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Stephen == Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Yup, also, when you get a custom module from CPAN, put it in Stephen /usr/local/lib/site_perl, the proper place for downloaded Stephen modules. This is the default place, when installing modules manually (or through CPAN.pm). So it

What are the Dpkg perl modules used for?

1998-12-30 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello I was poking around in the perl5 lib directory and noticed 3 Dpkg modules: List.pm, Packages.pm, and Index.pm. What can they be used for? -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How can I restore Dselect's needed Perl modules?

1997-06-14 Thread Terrence Brannon
Somehow, the Perl modules that dselect needs got munged. I have another Debian 1.2 machine Ethernetted/Internetted to this one that I can ftp things from. Or of course I could ftp something from a debian ftp site. But the question is, what should I get and if I have to use dpkg instead of dselect

Re: How can I restore Dselect's needed Perl modules?

1997-06-14 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On 13 Jun 1997, Terrence Brannon wrote: Somehow, the Perl modules that dselect needs got munged. Yah, whassup wit' dat? I had problems with dselect's 'install' option, and with chat2.pl. I copied a missing module from elsewhere, re-ran dselect, tried to install something new, and ran