On 25 Dec 1997, William R Ward wrote: > Does anyone have a solution to this? I'd like to install the basic > Perl, and am fine with using .deb files for that, but wish to reserve > the right to upgrade using "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and its nifty > interface. > You could use the equivs package from hamm. You can set it up to "provide" the packages you have installed using CPAN.pm . You can modify equiv's controlfile in it's source distribution or change the "Provides:" line in equiv's paragraph in /var/lib/dpkg/status.
> Also I've noticed that some Perl modules get installed into > /usr/lib/perl5 (bad!) when I use the 'perl Makefile.PL; make test; > make install' method, and others into /usr/local/lib/site-perl (good). > Does anyone here know how to force all Perl modules I install to go in > /usr/local/lib/site-perl so they won't conflict with the Debian stuff? > If the install docs provided by the perl module doesn't say how to do it, you could always modify the makefile. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .