[Perl] Installation oneliners (was:perldoc and perl/tk)
Reuven M. Lerner
reuven at lerner.co.il
Tue Nov 26 01:22:31 PST 2002
>>>>> "Shlomo" == Shlomo Yona <shlomo at cs.haifa.ac.il> writes:
Shlomo> There are some files in ~/.cpan which serve as a kind of a
Shlomo> database/cache. Perhaps calling them a database is too
Shlomo> much...
Yeah, these are just a cache. CPAN.pm looks there before trying to
download a version from the network. You can delete the contents of
~/.cpan each time you use CPAN.pm, and everything will work fine (but
more slowly).
Reuven
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