From: Andrew M Farrell Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:25:03 +0000 (-0400) Subject: How do you start the interactive shell? X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/commitdiff_plain/d38aea69914ce0504e7801b2d6f2644dcc6daabc?ds=sidebyside How do you start the interactive shell? --- diff --git a/doc/cpan.mdwn b/doc/cpan.mdwn index 3e15bdd..13f03db 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: - * Set `prerequisites_policy` to `follow` inside CPAN (`o conf prerequisites_policy follow` and then `o conf commit`) + * 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`) * Set the environment variable `PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT` to `1`. e.g. run `cpan` as