[PLUG] Upgrading CPAN

Dave dave at dhdo.org
Sun Dec 17 21:32:09 UTC 2006


perl -MCPAN -e'install CPAN' should download and install the latest
CPAN.  

If you're using debian, by the way, you might be interested in
dh-make-perl for building debian packages from CPAN (so you can easily
uninstall / upgrade them later).  

On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 10:55 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Yesterday and today I installed a couple of perl modules using CPAN. Each
> time it told me that a newer version is available. I have that untarred, but
> cannot find instructions on how to install it. There's a Makefil.pl in the
> directory, do I run 'make Makefile.pl' followed by the usual 'make install?'





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