[Techtalk] installing Perl modules?

[Linda]

On 29 Jul 2002, at 23:06, Raven Alder wrote:

> Heya --
> 
> Quoth Linda (Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:00:20PM -0400):
> > I have RH7.0 installed. I'd like to install two Perl modules DBI and 
> > DBD::mysql   which are not installed.
> > 
> > I know that these modules are on CPAN but that's all I know.
> > How do I go about installing these modules?  Oh, this laptop with 
> > RH7.0 does not have internet access in case that makes a 
> > difference.
> 
> 	Yep, it does.  If you don't have Internet access from the
> laptop, you'll have to download the modules from CPAN, get them onto the
> laptop somehow, and then install them manually.  There's a handy Perl
> module called CPAN.pm that you may want to look into for your systems
> that are online.  It automates the process of downloading and installing
> Perl modules from a mirror close to you.  I'm fond of it.  
> 
> 	Instructions for downloading and installing Perl modules
> manually can be found on the CPAN website at:
> 
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html
> 
> 	Since you can't download directly from the Internet, you'll have
> to download the modules you want, and then put them on a CD or floppy
> (or push 'em across the network if you have a local LAN but no Internet
> access) to install on your laptop.  
> 
> 	Once you have the files on the local machine, put them in the
> directory that you want to unpack them in, un-tar and un-zip them (they
> usually come in .tar.gz form, so "tar -xvzf NameOfModule.tar.gz" will do
> the unpacking for you), and then type the following commands:
> 
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test
> make install
> 
> Depending on the permissions on your system, you may have to be root to
> do that last bit.
> 
> 	Hope that helps!
> 
> Cheers,
> Raven

Aha, thanks!

It wasn't as painful as I thought it would be. Now, onward to Perl 
and Mysql. Wish me luck. 

Linda