Subject: Re: Installing the CPAN module from pkgsrc
To: Mark E. Perkins <perkinsm@bway.net>
From: radhika <radhika@88thstreet.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/16/2005 10:24:34
Hi Mark,
Thanks!
I found it in: /usr/pkg/bin/cpan
I actually just went ahead and installed it with Makefile.pl, but this is
good to know.

regds,
Radhika

> On 2/14/05 22:24, radhika wrote:
>> Hi,
>> can anybody point me to the directory in pkgsrc I can install CPAN from.
>
> CPAN.pm is standard with Perl (since 5.0someting, as I recall), so should
> have been installed when you installed from pkgsrc. A perl script called
> 'cpan' should also be available (in ${LOCALBASE}/bin), which is just
> wrapper around 'perl -MCPAN'.
>
> HTH,
> Mark
>


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