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silent11 (2860)
Friday July 01, 2005
09:20 AM
CPANPLUS and installing lotsa modules at once
I'm still getting my Linux box ready for development, and I've been installing a hella lota modules. I know
CPANPLUS is already the easy way, but comon! There are like 40+ Net::Amazon modules and a ton for Template::* etc...
I tried CPAN Terminal> install Net::Amazon::* but that didn't work. After looking in the docs I noticed that CPANPLUS accepts install MODULE | NUMBER. Which installs modules by name or by search number.
Still, knowing the search number wouldn't save me time. Then I thought , wouldn't it be cool if I could do something like install Net::Amazon 1..LAST_IN_SEARCH
Well I searched on Net::Amazon, found that 41 modules existed, and issued a i Net::Amazon 1..41 and do you know it WORKED!
This will save me soo much time, especially with the Template::* modules.
The only problem is that it wouldn't follow dependencies, which I do have CPANPLUS set up to do.
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41? Surely... (Score:2)
5 distributions. That doesn't seem so unfeasable to me.
Well, that doesn't mean you didn't discover a neat trick. You did.
Re:41? Surely... (Score:1)
Thanks.