perl on fedora?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:55:52 -0800
Mike Wright <mike.wright at mailinator.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Very confused here.
> 
> I'm trying to install a perl module without any luck.  Isn't this
> stuff supposed to work out of the gate?  Is there some sort of
> fedora / yum way to to this?  Basic instructions for perl either
> return nothing or a failure message.
...snip...

Well, what module are you trying to install? 

I would suggest: 

1. Check to see if it's already packaged in Fedora: 

yum list perl-Whatever
or
yum provides 'perl(whatever::whatever)'

If it is, just yum install it. 

2. If it's not packaged already: 

yum install cpan2rpm
'man cpan2rpm' to find all the options, but: 

cpan2rpm Proc::Daemon /tmp/String-Canonical-1.2.tar.gz

should produce a rpm you can install with 'yum installl ./whatever.rpm' 

Hope that helps, 

kevin
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