11-12-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Legend986
I am really confused as to how to install a piece of software on Unix especially after having worked with Windows for over 10 years.
Windows is a number of operating systems from one vendor and they have had many different installers with msi only being a recent thing.
UNIX is many operating systems from many vendors with their own agendas, priorities, compatibility issues etc.
Solaris - pkg
IRIX - tardist
AIX - lpp
HPUX - depot
Tru64 - setld
Linux - a veritable menagerie
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Legend986
Also there are some directories like /usr and /bin and /usr/bin... I don't understand any of these...
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NAME
cpaninject - Inject a distribution for installation via the CPAN shell
SYNOPSIS
# Add the distribution
cpaninject myperlmodule.tar.gz
# And then install it from the cpan shell
cpan> install LOCAL/myperlmodule.tar.gz
DESCRIPTION
cpaninject is a small front-end application for the CPAN::Inject module.
It takes any arbitrary Perl distribution tarball (open source or otherwise) and injects it into the local CPAN file cache, smoothing some
metadata files to make it look as if it came from CPAN.
It makes use the officially blessed "Reserved Local CPAN Author" id "LOCAL" as the author the distributions are added under.
To use the program, just run cpaninject mytarball.tar.gz to add it, then the CPAN shell to install it (with full automatic recursive
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The key here being the recursive dependency installation, which you are now able to do even for installing non-CPAN modules.
This simplifies the installation process a little, and makes things easier on someone that just wants to install a single commercial or
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SUPPORT
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For other issues, or commercial enhancement and support, contact the author
AUTHOR
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SEE ALSO
CPAN::Mini::Inject
COPYRIGHT
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