Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:50:34 -0600 (MDT) From: "James A. Harrison" <jamesh@lanl.gov> To: "Vince" <jhary@unsane.co.uk> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD Message-ID: <49444.128.165.0.81.1193237434.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <471F36CD.6000603@unsane.co.uk> References: <471EDBCB.8010009@enabled.com> <20071024065243.2C41.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> <471F36CD.6000603@unsane.co.uk>
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> Gerard wrote: >> On October 24, 2007 at 01:44AM Noah wrote: >> >> >>> I am looking around for a really simple way to install CPAN on FreeBSD. >>> I keep running into errors in one variation or another. >> I'm not a very heavy perl user, but I've never *needed* to install CPAN on FreeBSD. A little creative searching has revealed that most perl packages are part of the FreeBSD Ports collection. If you use more obscure CPAN packages, I can see there might be a need to install CPAN, but try ports first. James
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