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RE: activestate perl on cygwin


I don't actually install through cygwin, but use the ppm installer from
Activestate. I still need to know how to solve the issue that occurs with
the command I mentioned in my original post. Using the version of perl
installed with cygwin is not really an option since I already have scripts
written that utilize windows specific modules.

Thanks,
Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of
DePriest, Jason R.
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:13 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: activestate perl on cygwin

On 1/9/07, Brian Dessent  wrote:
> moka at hol dot gr wrote:
> >
> > But how do you then install modules? Just like in unix from the tarballs
> >  that are intended for unix?
>
> Essentially, yes.  Just run CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell) and type
> "install Foo::Bar" just as you would on any unix system.  You don't have
> to actually know or care about tarballs, CPAN does all that for you.

One caveat.  If you are behind a proxy server that requires
authentication, ActiveState's PPM install tools are much easier to get
reliably working than the various command-line tools that CPAN uses
(wget, lynx, ncftp, Net::FTP, etc).

-Jason

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