Re: Perl and OSX

[fpi]

Trimbach is right - I used CPAN and installed Net::Telnet on my OSX machine with no problem. Here's what I did:

1. su to root, first by setting a password using the netinfo method, the sudo method, or any of the other methods
2. type perl -MCPAN -e shell
3. if this is the first time to run CPAN, you will be asked a bunch of configuration questions. All defaults seemed to work ok for me, but I changed the cache location from /var/root/.cpan to /private/var/root/.cpan, but I don't know if that is necessary
4. when you get to the CPAN prompt, type install Bundle::libnet, which includes Net::Telnet

I also successfully (?) installed Bundle::CPAN (i.e.updated CPAN), libwww-perl (which includes LWP), and DBI so far. And I followed larsen's suggestion to join the OSX-perl mailing list, which is a good place to ask if anyone else successfully installed a particular module.

By the way, I'm using a fresh installation of OSX, with no alterations to perl...update: I should add that I did install the developer's CD also...

Hope this helps...

[TrinityInfinity]

It does! Thanks so much... I'll love having an easy way to install modules after I get the rest of the problem cleared up. Thanks!