[PLUG] Upgrading CPAN

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Dec 18 00:18:13 UTC 2006


On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Dave wrote:

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

   Thanks, Dave. I didn't realize that cpan would upgrade itself. Sorta'
self-referential, eh?

> 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).

   I don't Debian; Slackware in use here.

Rich

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