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

[Richard Jolly]

On 5 Jan 2007, at 12:36, paddy at panici.net wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:08:39AM +0000, Richard Jolly wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> you could try the debian-user mailing list, or the ubuntu equivalent.
> Although I would have thought this list would be as dense a
> concentration of such knowledge as you're likely to find anywhere.
> sorry, punavoidable ;-)

I've subscribed. The ubuntu archives don't show anything very useful. 
Debian's may be richer; I've yet to look.

>> 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.
>
> when I installed catalyst on etch a while back, I ended up with a mixed
> install with cpanp managing the part of the install in /usr/local.
> that was fine for a single-purpose 'have-a-look-see' install, but for
> different purposes I might do things differently.

I'm on dapper - probably will stay there unless there is a compelling 
reason to move up. I am tempted to let cpan or cpanp do it's usual 
thing, but keep it all somewhere quite distinct - like /opt/local/. 
Then starting from scratch is an rm -rf away.

> Regards,
> Paddy
>
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