Re: Networkless systems

--- On Thu, 2/25/10, Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Gabor Szabo <[email protected]>
> Subject: Networkless systems
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 8:44 AM
> My client is using Strawberry Perl on
> a machine that does not have
> direct connection to the Internet. They had to install 2
> additional
> modules from CPAN. I told them to copy the tar.gz files to
> the target
> machine and then run
> 
>  pip Module-Name-1.00.tar.gz
> 
> Unfortunately pip immediately wanted to connect to the
> Internet -
> apparently downloading the index files of CPAN.
> I solved that by telling them to untar the files and then
> do the
> manual installations but I wonder if I had other, simpler
> option?
> 
> It would be nice if I could easily install additional
> modules without
> network access.
> 
> regards
>     Gabor
> 

Standard Perl way:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

does not imply network access. I've never tried this method under Windows,
but something tells me it should work.

Regards,
  Sergei.