cpan

[Stuart Carrison]

Hi folks,

Please excuse me I'm a serious noob....

I'm running Mandrake 7.2 on Sparc with Perl 5.6.0.

I need at least 5.6.1 to use razor and spamassassin, but I'm having problems
with RPMs - there just doesn't seem to be a precompiled version of 5.6.1 for
Sparc anymore (well, one that works anyway) and compiling isn't going well
either.

However, I've heard of this thing called CPAN, which I'm led to beleive can
be used to up-grade PERL.

Can someone confirm this and perhaps provide some _simple_ instructions for
me?

If this is the wrong NG I apologise but ask that you point me to the right
one.

Thanks all

Stuart

 

[Paul Lalli]

Please excuse me I'm a serious noob....

I'm running Mandrake 7.2 on Sparc with Perl 5.6.0.

I need at least 5.6.1 to use razor and spamassassin, but I'm having problems
with RPMs - there just doesn't seem to be a precompiled version of 5.6.1 for
Sparc anymore (well, one that works anyway) and compiling isn't going well
either.

However, I've heard of this thing called CPAN,
www.cpan.org

which I'm led to beleive can be used to up-grade PERL.

perl is the program, Perl is the language. Not 'PERL'.

Can someone confirm this and perhaps provide some _simple_ instructions for
me?

CPAN is the "Comprehensive Perl Archive Network". It is (primarily) a
collection of modules for use in developing Perl programs. It is not
intended as a means to upgrade your local copy of perl. It does,
however, maintain a list of known binary and source distributions. I
reccomend reading this: http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html#linux to
see if one of the pointers or links there is helpful to you.

Paul Lalli

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

Hi folks,

Please excuse me I'm a serious noob....

I'm running Mandrake 7.2 on Sparc with Perl 5.6.0.

I need at least 5.6.1 to use razor and spamassassin, but I'm having
problems with RPMs - there just doesn't seem to be a precompiled
version of 5.6.1 for Sparc anymore (well, one that works anyway) and
compiling isn't going well either.

However, I've heard of this thing called CPAN, which I'm led to
beleive can be used to up-grade PERL.

See http://faq.perl.org/perlfaq2.html, especially
http://faq.perl.org/perlfaq2.html#What_modules_and_ext

Sinan