Software Install Best Practice?

[Ryan Greenier]

I use the following for my perl-module installations:

[user @server ~]$ perl -MCPAN -e shell

I usually use apt or yum to do updates. Doing a quick google, I found
this site that you can checkout
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_fedora_core_3_p3 for some
details on apt. There's probably better links than that though...

- Ryan

On 11/16/05, Danny Howard <dannyman at toldme.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am new to Linux.  I come from FreeBSD, and I am used to the idea that
> if I need to add a package, I can do so through the ports tree.
>
> On Fedora, I have come to a similar accomodation.  I added LIVNA to my
> yum repositories like so:
>
> rpm -ivh
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/livna-release-4-0.lvn.5.4.noarch.rpm
>
> Now I can "yum install" most anything on Fedora. :)
>
> And I have an RHEL box, needs a bunch of Perl modules.  I have consulted
> TFM at
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-rpm-using.html
> and they say I should use RPM, and first I have to find the .rpm files,
> and I should look:
>
>     http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html
>
> Well, that's a list of Fedora mirrors ... uhmmm ...
>
>     * Red Hat Network — Refer to Chapter 17 Red Hat Network for more
> details on Red Hat Network
>
> Chapter 17 makes RHN look like some GUI admin tool for keeping the Base
> OS up to date.  I want to find a trusted repository of Perl modules,
> etc.  Pointers on where I should go and what I should read?
>
> Thanks,
> -danny
>
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