PERL BEGINNERS 12 RE SICK OF INSTALLING CPAN MODULES
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:21:41 -0400

Subject: Re: Sick of installing CPAN modules
From: george@no-spam (George Schlossnagle)

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 02:05 PM, jc wrote:

> I have parse a mailbox in order to grab data from each email. Simple > enough > right?
>
> So I tried to use the CPAN module Mail::MboxParser (0.17 version > because the > new one requires more modules than this one) I installed the > prerequisite > MIME::Tools (5 version, not developer) and this went fine. > MIME::Tools also > requires IO::Stringy, and Mail::Field, Mail::Header, Mail::Internet. > No > problem, installed all of those.
>
> However, the Mail::MboxParser, the one that I really need still says > it need > MIME::Tools. The actual module is called MIME::tools. I'm wondering > if the > program is so stupid that it doesn't realize this ist he same thing. > Or > perhaps it's not the same thing and there's a secret to installing > these > modules that I don't know about.

as root:

perl -MCPAN -e'shell'

follow the instructions then from the shell type
install Mail::MboxParser