Install/Uninstall

[Tb Thomas]

Attempting to check out the basic example applications, ran across this:

Installation

While you’re at it why don’t you try Galileo on your home system?

With a relatively modern Perl simply run

cpan -i Galileo

or (if you run with the new crowd)

cpanm Galileo

note: you may have to run these as root depending on your system’s configuration

Then configure in your browser after running

galileo setup

Finally start your server

galileo daemon

First I installed cpanm (cause "that's what all the cool kids are using").

Then: cpanm Galileo

Got a warning that I needed to be root (no "Continue?" prompt), it just continued on for about 20 minutes installing a bunch of dependencies and running tests on them. I figured better to let it finish than abort, then uninstall and start over...

But, no such luck. Apparently 'uninstalling' isn't considered a priority (albeit, cpan does keep a list, but not cpanm).

Before we can safely install 'big Perl applications' (with numerous dependencies and version-specific features) perhaps we need an installation system capable of cleanly installing and/or uninstalling those big apps. (Consider that a suggestion for a future 'Mojolicious' project !;)

[sri]

Before we can safely install 'big Perl applications' (with numerous dependencies and version-specific features) perhaps we need an installation system capable of cleanly installing and/or uninstalling those big apps. (Consider that a suggestion for a future 'Mojolicious' project !;)

a) cpanm -U exists, b) just use local::lib, c) or Carton

--

sebastian 

[Flavio Poletti]

2018-05-17 9:32 GMT+02:00 Tb Thomas <tbfh...@gmail.com>:

Then: cpanm Galileo

Got a warning that I needed to be root (no "Continue?" prompt), it just continued on for about 20 minutes installing a bunch of dependencies and running tests on them. I figured better to let it finish than abort, then uninstall and start over...

The warning was probably a bit more verbose, and it's why you didn't see any "Continue?" prompt. cpanm falls back on installing modules in "$HOME/perl5" if it can't install them in the "official positions".

 

But, no such luck. Apparently 'uninstalling' isn't considered a priority (albeit, cpan does keep a list, but not cpanm).

I honestly wonder who uses "uninstall" nowadays. The approach by many people is to install stuff in a localized library and avoid cluttering the "shared" space (where e.g. upgrading a module might break something in another program). Some people (me included sometimes) arrive to compile a separate perl completely.

cpanm makes it extremely easy to install stuff in a local library with the "-l" option; Carton is another idea to do that (it uses cpanm behind the scenes).

Anyway, in your specific case you should probably just be fine deleting "$HOME/perl5", which was created by cpanm as a result of you *not* being root during installation.

 

Before we can safely install 'big Perl applications' (with numerous dependencies and version-specific features) perhaps we need an installation system capable of cleanly installing and/or uninstalling those big apps. (Consider that a suggestion for a future 'Mojolicious' project !;)

As I was saying, I guess many people don't bother uninstalling nowadays, but install stuff in localized directories or in custom perls. This makes uninstalling a breeze (just delete the whole installation directory and you're done). I see this as part of the mind shift from pets to cattle.

For Mojolicious projects I always install it in a local directory, usually creating a cpanfile and then letting Carton do its job.

Ciao,

    Flavio.