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Re: activestate perl on cygwin

On 1/9/07, Brian Dessent wrote: 
moka at hol dot gr wrote:
>
> But how do you then install modules? Just like in unix from the tarballs
>  that are intended for unix?

Essentially, yes.  Just run CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell) and type
"install Foo::Bar" just as you would on any unix system.  You don't have
to actually know or care about tarballs, CPAN does all that for you.


One caveat.  If you are behind a proxy server that requires
authentication, ActiveState's PPM install tools are much easier to get
reliably working than the various command-line tools that CPAN uses
(wget, lynx, ncftp, Net::FTP, etc).

-Jason

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