RE: [vps-mail] Installing new Perl modules

["John Oligario" <joligario@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was never able to get cpan to work properly on the vps b, switch to a vps
pro (only about $10 more per month however more powerful) and install it
there. You will have root access there to do what you want, get much more
disk space, have your own control on things.

John Oligario

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Marjolein Katsma
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 2:20 PM
To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [vps-mail] Installing new Perl modules


At 19:16 2003-12-21, John Oligario wrote:
>You will need root user permissions, is this your own server or one 
>that is hosted?  If hosted, then you can ask your host to do the 
>install for you.

It's hosted (VPS B).

Still, why then would CPAN be installed if it can't actually be used to 
install modules?

The set of modules that _are_ installed is very limited, which means for 
about every Perl package or utility I'd want to use I'd need supporting 
modules as well. Seems not a very good idea to me I'd have to ask my host 
for supporting modules every time I'd like to use a new Perl program...

I've been able to install and compile C programs in the past, so this 
limitation for Perl seems like a strange limitation to me.



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Marjolein Katsma

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