[Dxspider-support] Perl versions + CPAN

[Dirk Koopman]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:28:56 +0100
Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:39:33 +0100
> Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > 1. Would everybody please upgrade their perl to 5.6.1 (ActiveState
> > build 633) - even those people running 5.6.0 (because this is known
> > to be buggy). If you are going to compile perl up (it isn't hard)
> > then go the whole hog and move to perl 5.8.0 - as I will be quite
> > soon. 
> >
> 
> 1a. A consequence of upgrading your perl will be that you will have to
>     reinstall (some of) the modules mentioned in the Installation 
>     Guide. 
> 
> > 2. Would everyone in *nix land configure CPAN (esp. if you have
> > upgraded to 5.6.1 first), this is also not hard and normally simply
> > consists of pressing return several times during the configuration
> > (for UK users, I find the plig.org and mirror.ac.uk mirrors the
> > best). To start up CPAN you do:- perl -MCPAN -eshell and then answer
> > the questions. 
> > 
> 
> 2a. The modules you may need are:-
> 
>     cpan> install Date::Parse
>     cpan> install Time::HiRes
>     cpan> install Digest::SHA1
>     cpan> install Data::Dumper
>     cpan> install Curses

2b.  add
      cpan> install Net::Telnet

> 
> Some of these may be 'up-to-date', depending on which version of perl
> you install.

Dirk G1TLH