Few questions (debian related)

[Evan Martin]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:10:05PM -0800, M. Oesterwinter wrote:
> 1. How do you change the @INC for perl?

On a per-script basis?  Or overall?  What are you trying to do.

> 2. What is the best way of installing perl modules on debian?  Should I
> perl -MCPAN them all, or should I try to apt-get as many as possible?
> Should I upgrade perl with -MCPAN, or should I use apt-get?  Can I
> automatcially configure the CPAN module for debian by apt-getting
> something?

You should do everything with apt.
I've never encountered a major Perl module that Debian was lacking
(except Net::FTPServer, which appeared in Debian the next week).

> 3. If I need to compile my own apache on debian, should I:
> 	1. Download source and compile as usual
> 	2. Download source package - (compile as usual?)
> 	3. Create my own .deb??? - how?

Sorta use 2 and 3, if you're trying to do it "properly".
You'll have to read some docs, of course, but
  apt-get source apache
gets the Debian source, and
....
  debian/rules binary
builds the package.

I often just apt-get the Debian package, then compile the program and
replace just the binary:
  # cp program `which program`

Though this may not work for Apache, because of the modules setup...

Why do you need to compile your own?

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