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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Sunday, November 2, 2003 4:34:47 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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Quickest way to use CPAN to get modules is like this:
perl -MCPAN -e "shell"
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+However, many of the more popular modules are in [Debian] and undoubtedly the other distributions as well, so you're better off using the package management if you can. In Debian at least, look for packages named lib<something>-perl. For example, the libdbd-pg-perl provides the DBD::Pg module from CPAN. (RedHat merely calls this package DBD-Pg.)
