On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:38:06PM -0600, Chris Schumann wrote: > > From: "John J. Trammell" > > > 1. You can always install the Perl module "by hand"--no need to > > use CPAN. > Well, I'm not sure how to do that. If I use "perl -MCPAN -eshell" and then > "install Digest::MD5" the same thing happens. > The CPAN module isn't necessary to install other modules. If you can find the tarfile containing the Digest::MD5 module, you can unpack the tarfile, do a "perl Makefile.PL", then "make", "make test" and "make install" > > 2. The CPAN settings are modifiable. 'perldoc CPAN' if you want > > to do it from within the CPAN shell, or 'locate CPAN | grep Config' > > if you want to do it by hand. > Thanks for the information, but the perldoc is huge, and I don't have time > to learn everything. I found a few Config.pm and MyConfig.pm files, but > nothing seemed to have a "installman1" or anything like it. There's a section titled "CONFIGURATION"--you could start with that. No guarantees that's where your problems are though. I think Munir's suggestion to use your native packaging system to address this problem is right on the money. -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list