[Catalyst] Debian recommendation

[Juan Miguel Paredes]

2009/10/17 Octavian Râşniţă <orasnita at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen a recommendation on this list for Debian for running perl apps,
> and recently I started to use this distro.
>
> I've seen that I can install perl modules very hard under Debian if I use
> the CPAN shell.
> For example if I run
>
> $ cpan
> cpan> install Class::MOP
>
> it gives an "Unknown error" and it doesn't want to install and the same with
> Catalyst::Runtime.
>
> But if I do then
>
> cpan> look ModuleName
> $ perl Makefile.PL
> $ make
> $ make test
> $make install
>
> I can install the modules without problem (usually).
> However, I need to manually install each dependency.
>
> I've seen this strange thing under 2 Debian systems so I think it is not a
> Debian bug.
>
> Does this happen to you? If yes, how do you solve it?
>

Hi, Octavian.

Are you running cpan with root or a normal user account? Under a
non-root account, it would be advisable to install and use local::lib,
maintaining your own directory of perl modules under your home
directory. Some modules would be better installed with the distro
package manager (aptitude / apt-get), like Module::Install. In all,
Debian and Ubuntu have worked pretty well for me.

Regards,

Juan: