installing perl modules on F10

[Dave Cross]

2009/2/6 Norman Gaywood <ngaywood at une.edu.au>:
> Hi list,
>
> So whats the recommended way of installing perl modules in Fedora 10?

rpm and/or yum

> What we have been doing in the past is to install a perl-* rpm via yum
> if one is available for the module we want.
>
> If the module is not available via rpm, we use "perl -MCPAN -e shell" to
> install modules.

I really don't recommend that. Mixing rpm-installed modules and
cpan-installed modules is very likely to lead to unhappiness.

You may find my "Perl in RPM-Land" presentation interesting.

  http://www.slideshare.net/davorg/perl-in-rpmland-presentation

Cheers,

Dave...