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
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

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
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:59:59PM +0100, 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 For the record, you might find it more useful to check if Debian

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