[Gllug] Problems with cpan install

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Wed, November 8, 2006 9:16 am, Aaron Trevena wrote:
> On 07/11/06, Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
>> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>> > just seems to take me to a shell where the same problems are seen.
>> > It looks to me like the perl GD is broken for my distro - a 64 bit
>> > Debian sarge
>> >
>>
>> Yep, that'll be the problem.
>>
>> An awful lot of perl modules are pre-packaged, don't use CPAN.
>
> An awful lot of pre-packaged perl modules are out of date, have stupid
> or just plain wrong dependancies, and unpredictably named.
>
>> Those that aren't packaged are easy to debianise, "apt-get install
>> dh-make-perl", and _still_ don't use CPAN.
>
> Yeah - right. dh-make-perl is ok if you have zero dependancies, if it
> was really useful it would use cpan to fetch and package dependancies.
>
> I find it a lot easier to just use my own perl and cpan than rely on
> debian packagers, at least if I want to use any modules from this
> century.
>

As it turned out I installed the GD perl wrapper library via apt and then
used CPAN to install the actual module. I did that before everybody wrote
in saying "don't use CPAN" but it works and that's what matters...

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