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It's basically a library that will facilitate the programmer to carry out some task in Perl (e.g. sending mails, parsing various file formats, interacting with databases, etc).
How you'd install it depends on the distribution of linux you're using.
How you'd install it depends on the distribution of linux you're using.
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If its a standard CPAN module it should install quickly. You can run into problems installing some modules depending on a number of things. Your best bet is to just try installing it and see if all goes well, if not, perl will report some errors that inhibited the installation. Whats the module they want installed?
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perl -MCPAN -e 'install Image::Resize'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install GD'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Business::OnlinePayment::AuthorizeNet'
That's the syntax and script, I think. Doesn't look like much, but then again, I'm a DBA, so I'd rather ask one of you experts....
perl -MCPAN -e 'install GD'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Business::OnlinePayment::AuthorizeNet'
That's the syntax and script, I think. Doesn't look like much, but then again, I'm a DBA, so I'd rather ask one of you experts....
First I would recommend searching your package manager. A lot of commonly used modules are probably already in your software repositories.
This is likely to work on a recent redhat system (RHEL5 for sure), if you don't have yum though or have the default software repos disabled for some reason this won't cut it.
You can try the syntax you posted to install things if you have the CPAN module. If it says "Can't locate CPAN.pm" though, try
And for that matter, that would install the "cpan shell", where you can just execute commands like this:
If the CPAN installer doesn't work (it "won't install without force" so if anything happens during its effort to install it, it will abort and not install it for you), you can always install things manually.
Most Perl modules you can just download as a tar.gz from cd to their directory and do
(the last one requires root)
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yum install perl-GD
yum install perl-XML-Parser
yum install perl-Regexp-Copy
etcThis is likely to work on a recent redhat system (RHEL5 for sure), if you don't have yum though or have the default software repos disabled for some reason this won't cut it.
You can try the syntax you posted to install things if you have the CPAN module. If it says "Can't locate CPAN.pm" though, try
Code:
yum install perl-CPANAnd for that matter, that would install the "cpan shell", where you can just execute commands like this:
Code:
# cpan install Image::Resize
(perl 5.8)
# cpan Image::Resize
(perl 5.10)If the CPAN installer doesn't work (it "won't install without force" so if anything happens during its effort to install it, it will abort and not install it for you), you can always install things manually.
Most Perl modules you can just download as a tar.gz from cd to their directory and do
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perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install(the last one requires root)
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perl -e '$|=$i=1;print" oo\n<|>\n_|_";x:sleep$|;print"\b",$i++%2?"/":"_";goto x;'- Status
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