[arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

[Marco Crosio]

2011/7/3 Steve Holmes <steve.holmes88 at gmail.com>

> On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 03:20:31PM +0200, Florian Pritz wrote:
> > `cpanp i Moose` works fine here.
>
> It doesn't for me.  I'll describe below.
>
> > IMHO you should install perl-cpanpplus-dist-arch (run setupdistarch as
> > your user afterwards) and use cpanp to generate and install pacman perl
> > packages. It's way easier to use than AUR.
>
> Been there, done that.  I did the setup and the appropriate directory
> was built successfully in my home directory - .cpanplus is the root of
> cpanplus app[arently.
>
> > This is what I did:
> > pacman -Qm | grep "^perl-" > perlpkgs
> > pacman -Rcs $(<perlpkgs)
>
> Once the perlpkgs file was built, I had to go in and manually remove
> all the version numbers; otherwise, pacman threw errors; it could not
> recognize them as additional packages.
>

using  this command do not require manual editing of perlpkgs file ;)
> pacman -Qm | grep "^perl-" | awk '{print $1}' > perlpkgs



> > use cpanp to reinstall everything in perlpkgs that you still need
>
> Do you need to be root to do this installation?  I ask this because
> after building the .cpanplus resources under my home directory, I
> figured I would have to do 'cpanp -i Net::Twitter' from my normal user
> account.  But nothing got installed and the packages all complained
> about missing dependencies.  I read the documentation (what little
> there was) and I can't figure out what else I need to do to get this
> working.  It appears a bunch of packages got download and expanded
> into ./cpanplus/lib/5.14.1 but they all failed because none of the
> other dependencies were installed yet.
>
> What do I need to do here?
>
>


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