On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 02:17:41PM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:
> How do I use CPAN to install;
>ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/Term/TermReadKey-2.14.tar.gz>> I've tryed "install Term/TermReadKey" and about thirty combinations, and
> I'm getting nowhere :)
I've twice tried to use CPAN to install something small and the fscking
thing spent all day fetching this and that, culimnating in an attempt to
upgrade the version of Perl I was running. Screw that ! No, download
TermReadKey-2.14.tar.gz and do
tar xzf TermReadKey-2.14.tar.gz
cd TermReadKey-2.14
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
I jsut did it from a TermReadKey-2.14.tar.gz that I found lying around
(under /root/.cpan, surprisingly enough - not! - hangover from my last
failed attempt with CPAN) and it took me about 1 minute. The CPAN module
sounds like a cute idea in principle, but in practice it seems like overkill
to me.
Regards,
Niall
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