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I've never gotten CPAN to work reliably with any OS's included copy of Perl. As with Python and Ruby, if you want to use things not available via the OS's packa

I've never gotten CPAN to work reliably with any OS's included copy of Perl. As with Python and Ruby, if you want to use things not available via the OS's package manager, you're best off installing a separate copy.

marcusramberg 12y ago
Use cpanm - Easy bootstrapping documentation here http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/App-cpanminus-1.7012/lib/App/cpanminus.pm http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/App-cpanminus-1.7012/lib/Ap...
walshemj 12y ago
Works out of the box on Ubuntu LTS, Raspberry pi hell it even worked back in 2000 on Cygwin out of the box on win2k.
- nknighthb 12y ago
  > Works out of the box on Ubuntu LTS Well, that's one I can personally tell you I've had problems with in the past. > even worked back in 2000 on Cygwin out of the box on win2k And also this one. That's even back around the timeframe I was actively doing Perl development while using win2k.
  - walshemj 12y ago
    Well I never had problems and the problems I had with mac where with basic stuff like the Perl MySQL DBI. In the end after seeing the complex work arounds and all the warnings about buggering up your mac OS install I gave up and run a VM. After all the nice people that employ me want me to do some nifty Machine learning tools to save a week a month running single adwords account.
    - nknighthb 12y ago
      Well, I've actually tried it with the included OS X Perl, and I can't seem to find a problem. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/d69f5b0cee13102a9167 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/d69f5b0cee13102a9167 So, I've satisfied your request, "Try using cpan to install basic modules like MySQL". I guess that means you admit OS X "can do pretty much any Unix based task that GNU/Linux can"?