cpan

Recently, I tried to install perl module Net::Packet and Net::Pcap through cpan but it complained that it cannot find pcap library. So I was searching if cpan would accept external lib/include directory when installing module, but no luck til now. looking for -lpcap... no - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You appear to lack the pcap(3) library. If it is installed in a non-standard locatio n, please try setting the LIBS and INC values on the command line. Or get the sources and install the pcap library from http://www.tcpdump.org/ If you install the pcap library using

I am looking for the simplest way possible to quickly retrieve data from an XML structure using XPath queries in Perl. The following code structure explains what I'd like to achieve: my $xml_data = "<foo><elementName>data_to_retrieve</elementName></foo>"; my $xpath_query = "//elementName"; my $result_of_query = ... what goes here? ... die unless ($result_of_query eq 'data_to_retrieve'); Obviously TIMTOWTDI applies, but what would be the easiest way to do it? XML::LibXML is not easier, but beats XML::XPath in every other aspect. use XML::LibXML; my $xml_data = XML::LibXML->load_xml( string => '

Which package from CPAN should I use to send mail ? Sometime the timtowtdi approach is very tiring. For me, especially when it comes to package selection. So all I want is to send email, potentially HTML emails. Between Mail-Sendmail, Mail-Sender, NET-SMTP (by the way - not available in PPM), Mail-SendEasy, and the 80 or so other packages that have 'Mail' in their package name - which one should I choose? And while in this subject, what is your general apprach to choose the "canonical" package for a jog. I.e. the package that "everybody is using". Is there any rating or popularity billboard

I have set makepl_arg [INSTALLDIRS=site PREFIX=~/perl] mbuildpl_arg [--install_base ~/perl] in the CPAN.pm configuration. I had hoped that this would cause modules to get installed in the same place, but I still have to set multiple paths in PERL5LIB: export PERL5LIB=~/perl/share/perl/5.10.0:~/perl/lib/perl5/:~/perl/lib/perl/5.10.0 This has been the case for a long time and I have just lived with it, but I was wondering if anyone knew how to get CPAN.pm to put all modules in the same directory? Install local::lib . It will handle all the configuration for you. Have you tried using INSTALL_BASE

Yesterday I wanted to test some software and in the documentation it said, to install I just needed to type cpan -i Software I never used cpan, I just know that it is the perl package manager. (Is it..?) However, it turned out that I needed loads of dependencies, and stupid as I am, I just installed all of them. (First, I had to set up cpan which asked me lots of questions) Long story short, I just want to remove all of it again. I googled a bit, and it seems like cpan does not have an uninstall routine, especially for all the packages at once. Can I just remove some directory or will I run