Re: I did it a mess with perl

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:22:19PM +0000, Victor wrote:
> Hi Friends,
> 
> I'll be a long reading for you!
> 
> As an absolute beginner with Perl I've been having a go at using Perl
> & DBI to connect to an Oracle server. therefore I neede to download
> and install from www.cpan.org the DBD::Oracle and the new DBI.......
> 
> *The Sad Story*
> 
> Reading the poor documentation under my debian potato 2.2r3 and the
> copious documentation on Perl (www.perl.org), perldoc and CPAN, and
> following the advice in dbi-users@perl.org list, not finding the
> command 'cpan' in my potato installation, I finally issued:
> 	
> 	perl -MCPAN -eshell
> 
> which (unfortunately) started a brand-new compilation and installation
> (using, upon my silly declaration, /usr/bin and /usr/lib) of perl
> (5.6.1), and of the DBI and DBDs I'd asked for.

ick. this is one of the reasons to find an alternate source for
CPAN material, i fear. (sometimes it's great to have the latest
and greatest -- but it's really nice the way debian works with
its "oh, you have version X clavis? then here's the compatible
version Y of frammistat to go with it...")

be aware also that many of the CPAN modules are ALREADY
debianized as 

	# apt-get install lib<something-or-other>perl

for example, my potato setup knows of:

	$ dpkg --get-selections lib\*perl | cut -f1
	libansicolor-perl
	libapache-asp-perl
	libapache-dbi-perl
	libapache-dbilogger-perl
	libapache-filter-perl
	libapache-mod-perl
	libapache-session-perl
	libapache-ssi-perl
	libauthen-pam-perl
	libcgi-xml-perl
	libcgi-xmlform-perl
	libcompress-zlib-perl
	libdbd-csv-perl
	libdbd-mysql-perl
	libdbd-pg-perl
	libdbi-perl
	libdelimmatch-perl
	libdevel-symdump-perl
	libdigest-md5-perl
	libhtml-embperl-perl
	libhtml-mason-perl
	libhtml-parser-perl
	libhtml-simpleparse-perl
	libi18n-langtags-perl
	libio-stringy-perl
	libmime-base64-perl
	libmime-perl
	libmldbm-perl
	libnet-dns-perl
	libnet-perl
	libnet-telnet-perl
	libpgperl
	libsgmls-perl
	libsql-statement-perl
	libstorable-perl
	libterm-readkey-perl
	libtext-csv-perl
	libtext-format-perl
	libtime-hires-perl
	libtime-period-perl
	libtimedate-perl
	liburi-perl
	libwww-perl
	libxbase-perl
	libxml-dom-perl
	libxml-generator-perl
	libxml-grove-perl
	libxml-node-perl
	libxml-parser-perl
	libxml-perl
	libxml-rss-perl
	libxml-twig-perl
	libxml-writer-perl

even tho i only have installed

	$ dpkg --get-selections lib\*perl | grep install
	libapache-asp-perl				install
	libapache-dbi-perl				install
	libapache-dbilogger-perl			install
	libapache-filter-perl				install
	libapache-session-perl				install
	libapache-ssi-perl				install
	libauthen-pam-perl				install
	libdbi-perl					install
	libdelimmatch-perl				install
	libdevel-symdump-perl				install
	libdigest-md5-perl				install
	libhtml-mason-perl				install
	libhtml-parser-perl				install
	libhtml-simpleparse-perl			install
	libi18n-langtags-perl				install
	libmime-base64-perl				install
	libmldbm-perl					install
	libnet-dns-perl					install
	libnet-perl					install
	libnet-telnet-perl				install
	libpgperl					install
	libsgmls-perl					install
	libstorable-perl				install
	libterm-readkey-perl				install
	libtext-format-perl				install
	libtime-hires-perl				install
	libtimedate-perl				install
	liburi-perl					install
	libwww-perl					install

to learn about the ones you have downloaded, do

	dpkg -L lib<whatever>perl
	apt-cache show lib<yadayada>perl

-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #62 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>
:
Wouldn't it be nice to SEE YOUR TABS WHILE YOU EDIT? With Vim,
you can do this with
	:set listchars=tab:+-,trail:$
	:set list
and format them via ":highlight NonText ...". (See ":help listchars"
and ":help highlight" for more info.) Put them in your ~/.vimrc if
you decide you like that setup.

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