Re: Finding CPAN modules (was Re: libwww-perl-5.805 install problems)

On 11/23/2006 09:23 PM, Chuck Gelm wrote:
> Jacinta Richardson wrote:
>> http://search.cpan.org
>>
>> URI:  http://search.cpan.org/author/GAAS/URI-1.35/URI.pm
>> HTML::Parser: 
>> http://search.cpan.org/author/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.55/Parser.pm
>>
>> and I'll let you do your own search (I promise it will work) for 
>> Compress::Zlib.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>>     J
>>
>> PS:  By the way, if you run Linux or have a Mac you may want to use 
>> your operating system's default package manager to fetch and install 
>> these modules. Likewise if you run Windows and have installed 
>> ActiveState Perl, you may want to use the PPM (package manager) that 
>> comes with Active State Perl.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Hi, J:
>
> Thanks.  I see how that web page works now.
> It is very alien.  I have never seen a web interface like that before.
>
> The complaint specifies that Compress::Zlib 1.10 is missing and
> that web page's search for Compress::Zlib
> only returns Compress-Zlib-2.001.tar.gz
> <http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-2.001.tar.gz>. 

> 
> :-|
>
> I have since found Compress-Zlib-1.10.tar.gz at another site.
>
> I am using Slackware v11.0, kernel 2.6.17.13, but I do not
> know how to make its package manager 'fetch'.
>
> Again, Thanks.
>
> Chuck
>

AFAIK, Slackware's native package manager doesn't fetch things for you. 
That's part of the reason that the CPAN shell exists.

If you had configured the CPAN shell, you could have installed 
Compress::Zlib without having to know where it was located. The CPAN 
shell takes care of that for you.

Oh, and BTW, if you want to update Slackware easily, get a program 
called "slapt-get."