From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 13 8:47:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.registeredsite.com (mail4.registeredsite.com [64.224.9.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF2D37B416 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:47:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.blue-mouse.com ([209.35.30.221]) by mail4.registeredsite.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1DFpg208918 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:51:42 -0500 Received: from CITYMOUSE [209.35.30.221] by mail.blue-mouse.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A899BC500C6; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:47:21 -0500 From: "GB" To: Subject: CPAN, Perl modules and FreeBSD Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:51:01 -0600 Message-ID: <002801c1b4ae$9ee2d6e0$6d01a8c0@CITYMOUSE> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks, a quick question: Problem: Using CPAN's install functionality messes up Perl. Background: In trying to prepare my box for WebGUI (www.plainblack.com/index.pl/webgui), I need to install several Perl modules. When installing them via CPAN using: # perl -MCPAN -e shell # install foo # install foo2 (etcetera) one or more installs will inevitably begin downloading Perl 5.6.x, even when it's installed on the machine, AND even when I've indicated that CPAN should ask before installing dependencies. I've tried letting CPAN autoconfigure, as well as configuring manually. Specific questions: * Should I just skip -MCPAN and instead download tarballs that I would decompress/make/make test/make install? (Likely answer: Yes, but I want to know what's breaking the auto-install if at all possible.) * What version of Perl is installed as part of the standard 4.5-RELEASE? * Should I generally stick with the 4.5-installed version of Perl, or upgrade to the 5.6.x version in the ports tree? If I'm upgrading, how would I deinstall the original Perl installation? (It doesn't seem to be a pkg, but I may be missing something). Grateful in advance, Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message