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

[Jonathan Rockway]

On Friday 05 January 2007 05:08, Richard Jolly wrote:
> 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.

I like using CPANPLUS and CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb.  If you use this module, 
cpanplus will build a debian package (and dependencies) and then use dpkg to 
install the module.  That means that you can easily remove and upgrade 
packages with dpkg (and apt), or just use CPAN.  It's kind of a pain if 
you've already installed some modules, though, so it's best if you start 
using it right away.  (The problem, though, is that you have to install 
CPANPLUS somehow.)

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