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Perl in Debian
Posted by ajt on Tue 26 May 2009 at 09:00
On my Debian systems I try to leave Perl as installed by Debian. I don't like messing with standard libraries as it always explodes on you when you least expect it. What surprises me though is that some Perl modules in Debian are woefully out of date - even in Debian testing.
I've tried running with locally installed Perls in the past but not with a lot of luck - odd things kept happening. I really need to try it again...
I've tried running with locally installed Perls in the past but not with a lot of luck - odd things kept happening. I really need to try it again...
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Ta, I'll have a look at that - useful tip.
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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Posted by Anonymous (82.46.xx.xx) on Wed 27 May 2009 at 10:31
You could try dh-make-perl:
sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl
dh-make-perl --cpan Test::XML --build
sudo dpkg -i libtest-xml-perl*.deb
sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl
dh-make-perl --cpan Test::XML --build
sudo dpkg -i libtest-xml-perl*.deb
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That's what I tried to start with, but for some reason it refused to work, no matter what I tried. I then tried a plain CPAN process which worked perfectly, so I'm not sure why dh-make-perl was having a problem.
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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If you want to interact nicer with the system perl, take a look at CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb to be able to get uptodate modules in debian format.
--Kane
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