X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/d38aea69914ce0504e7801b2d6f2644dcc6daabc..1b7af0e5919199a293c4750fa95d512c4a89d142:/doc/cpan.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/cpan.mdwn b/doc/cpan.mdwn index 13f03db..662281c 100644 --- a/doc/cpan.mdwn +++ b/doc/cpan.mdwn @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ For more details, such as how to manage multiple different `local::lib` installa By default, CPAN prompts you whether or not to follow dependencies when installing a package. This is not usually what you want -- if you want a specific package, you don't care what CPAN has to install to get it to you, so it should do so automatically. There are two steps required to get CPAN to do this: - * Within the CPAN interactive shell (which you can start with `perl -MCPAN -e shell`) Set `prerequisites_policy` to `follow` (`o conf prerequisites_policy follow` and then `o conf commit`) + * Within the CPAN interactive shell (run `cpan`), Set `prerequisites_policy` to `follow` (`o conf prerequisites_policy follow` and then `o conf commit`) * Set the environment variable `PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT` to `1`. e.g. run `cpan` as