Re: My Perl isn't working ...

["Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>]

> And as any good perlista will tell you, the canonical place to get
> perl modules is at the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
> http://www.cpan.org. Sure, if there is something in the ports tree
> already use that - otherwise checkout CPAN.

Which is where the source used by the ports tree ports/packages comes from. It
helps if people take even a cursory glance at the web pages and the FAQ.

As a bit of background, using CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell) works fine, but is not
necessarily the best route to go. I am at this moment - on another window -
installing a new web server. Now, if in the first place I would have had the
perl p5-* packages available 3 years ago on the old web server, it would have
made my life far easier to list the installed packages and then just duplicate -
but because I used CPAN, this isn't quite so simple.

Try the ports. There are other ways.

Peter