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Further Catalyst on Solaris notes

In my last post about installing Catalyst on Solaris I went to great lengths to install every Perl module, in order, from CPAN. This was a painful process to establish, and just as painful to emulate. The post was updated back in March to include CPAN bundles, which would do most of the hard work for you – but as was pointed out in the comments, it should’ve been a simple case of ‘cpan Catalyst’. Read more »

Installing Catalyst on Solaris 10 using the OS Perl

I decided to take a look at Catalyst on Solaris. Having done a bit of work with it on Mac OSX, I discovered it wasn’t that easy to get going on Solaris with the stock Perl. Even using cat-install from ShadowCat didn’t render the easy result I’d experienced using MacPorts. After a few hours battling with CPAN, I’ve managed to come up with this list of modules to get Catalyst up and running. Read more »