Re: newbie prerequisite install questions
"Bill Cole" <[email protected]>
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On 21 Nov 2016, at 13:04, Michael Fox wrote: > Thanks Mickey. > > That doesn't appear to be a "module", but rather an archive of > multiple modules, right? > (I'm new to CPAN, too). MailTools is a Distribution: a collection of related modules maintained as one project because they are interdependent. I cannot explain why the Download page shows it as MailTools-1. I don't expect that MD actually wants an ancient version 1.x, and I've seen no sign of trouble with the current version. The Download page probably should say Distributions rather than Modules, since all of those are Distributions. > So, is the instruction to download, unpack and install this archive, > using sudo? You can find a Distribution's author/distribution-version ID in an interactive CPAN shell with 'i /<distribution-name>/' e.g.: cpan[1]> i /MailTools/ Distribution id = M/MA/MARKOV/MailTools-2.18.tar.gz CPAN_USERID MARKOV (Mark Overmeer <[email protected]>) CONTAINSMODS Mail::Address Mail::Cap Mail::Field Mail::Field::AddrList Mail::Field::Date Mail::Field::Generic Mail::Filter Mail::Header Mail::Internet Mail::Mailer Mail::Mailer::qmail Mail::Mailer::rfc822 Mail::Mailer::sendmail Mail::Mailer::smtp Mail::Mailer::smtp::pipe Mail::Mailer::smtps Mail::Mailer::smtps::pipe Mail::Mailer::testfile Mail::Mailer::testfile::pipe Mail::Send Mail::Util And then (if the CPAN shell was started as root) install that with: cpan[2]> install MARKOV/MailTools-2.18.tar.gz > And, for my other question, should I install the other modules listed > on the Download page using > (sudo) CPAN? Yes. *ALL* of those are Distribution names, which is why they don't use the :: module delimiter. You should be able to get them all using CPAN. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang