[Catalyst] Managing CPAN on Ubuntu [was: 'Installing under ...' on the wiki]

[Richard Jolly]

On 3 May 2006, at 12:14, Chisel Wright wrote:

> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:04:42PM +0200, Jesper Krogh wrote:
>>> I guess that's an issue I need to pursue further myself (getting an
>>> up-to-date CPANPLUS package would be nice, but dh-make-perl barfs 
>>> quite
>>> early in the process).
>>
>> On which module? Here it "generally works".. It even works better if 
>> you
>> upgrade Module::Depends to 0.10 and apply the patch to dh-make-perl 
>> that
>> I've posted in the Debian bug-tracker on the package.
>
> Um, I'll have to give it another go. I'm sure this is all going to be
> much easier when I get to grips with the new way of doing things.
>
> Or maybe I won't ...
>
> Either way, I reckon that I should possibly take this off-list, or to
> another one. Is there a "Managing CPAN Modules For Dummies"
> debian/ubuntu list I can harass? :) [prefereably with an archive]
> (or some up-to-date web resources)

Reviving an old thread here - I was wondering if you found such a 
Dummies list.

I'm new to the debian/ubuntu way (I've been on FreeBSD, an OS X). I 
gather there is a danger of mixing apt-get and CPAN installs. But from 
my impression people usually end up with mixed installs anyway. 
dh-make-perl is an option, but doesn't handle dependencies as well as 
cpan.

I'm looking for strategies to handle this - particularly in the context 
of installing catalyst on ubuntu.

Thanks,

Richard