perl on fedora?

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Mike Wright <mike.wright at mailinator.com> said:
> 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.
> 
> perl -Mcpan -e shell

It is CPAN, not cpan (case matters).  However, your first step should be
to see if the module you want is available packaged for Fedora.  You can
do that from the command-line as root with:

  yum install 'perl(Some::Module)'

If it isn't found, you can then use CPAN to install it.  You may need to
install the CPAN module first though with:

  yum install 'perl(CPAN)'

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.