[lug] How to add modules to rpm-installed Perl?

[Steve Webb]

yum -y install perl-DBI

:)

The CPAN way:

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install modulename

- Steve

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Bill Thoen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:18:50 -0700
> From: Bill Thoen <bthoen at gisnet.com>
> Reply-To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] How to add modules to rpm-installed Perl?
> 
> I suppose this is dead easy, but I'm not sure how to proceed. I've got Perl
> on my Fedora Core 6 box, but I need to add the DBI module. My Perl was
> installed as an rpm package, and I have yum working. But can I just
> install this module with yum, or do I need to get it from CPAN and follow
> their instructions? I just don't want to have a mixed install if there's an
> easy way to add to the rpm database.
>
> Thanks,
> - Bill Thoen
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