On 04/05 11:04 , Saturn2888 wrote:
> How would I cpan install this one?

If at all possible I would avoid cpan. It works well enough for developers,
but any future/other administrators of the machine will hate you for using
it.

If you install all your software with packages (dpkg/rpm), upgrading and
checking for patches is generally a matter of 'apt-get update; apt-get
upgrade' (or whatever the command is in the tool you use other than 'apt').
If you install software from source, there's no package management.
Therefore you won't know if there's a security patch for that piece of
software; you won't know what you have installed (which makes it harder to
replicate your configuration); and you might end up clobbering software
installed from source with software installed from a package (which leads to
various strange behaviors at times).

So if at all possible, for the sake of your future sanity and the sanity of
anyone else who has to administrate the machine in question, please install
from a package. If it's absolutely necessary to get a version of some
software that isn't packaged, it's not that hard to learn how to build a
package for yourself.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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