perl -MCPAN -e shell question - need a howto

Gary Hayers gary at hayers.org
Fri Jan 14 07:08:45 PST 2005


Andy Firman wrote:
> Using FreeBSD 4.10 stable, perl-5.8.5 installed from ports.
> 
> su-2.05b# perl -v
> This is perl, v5.8.5 built for i386-freebsd-64int
> 
> When using perl -MCPAN -e shell, I can install the bundle fine,
> but the when I try to install XML::DOM, or Text::Aspell, they fail.
> 
> Where can I go for help on getting the bsdpan ports installed?
> Or is there a howto on this stuff because I am clueless?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy

If you have the Ports tree installed you can install it from the ports tree

# cd /usr/ports/textproc/p5-XML-DOM && make install clean


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