installed CPAN but application still doesn't work

[Charles Curley]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:44:39PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> jim martin wrote:
> > Hi.. I am install a application called swatch and it required CPAN to be installed.  I got this
> > message 
> 
> Maybe you need to learn what CPAN does?  :-)
> 
> cpan - easily interact with CPAN from the command line
> 
> The errors are telling you that certain perl modules are not installed on
> your system.
> 
> First do....
> 
> cpan -i Date::Calc
> cpan -i Date::Format
> and
> cpan -i File::Tail
> 
> Then see what happens...

As I understand things, cpan breaks things on Fedora Core, and
cpan2rpm is the preferred tool. However, first check to see if the
perl modules you want are available in extras.

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