Install Perl modules from CPAN as packages

Started from these instructions, but some modules try to install files into /usr/lib, which causes an error about being unable bto overwrite. I ran into this while trying to install a later version of Net::OpenID::Server/Net::OpenID::Consumer, in particular.

One solution is to force the install, but I don't know what other effect that could have.

The better solution is in this comment with similar but slightly different series of steps, from debian-administration.org.

(Note: in case it wasn't clear -- I had to figure it out through trial and error -- the rules.MakeMaker.noxs you're editing is the one in ~/.dh-make-perl)

So far so good; about to try it out.

ETA: Works!

A day's worth of Twitter ($5.00)

01:50:25	—	@isabeautiful yeah, I totally agree. Maybe we'll have shaken off the weirdness midway through 2011? *g*
13:31:02	—	@kareila and awesome patches, too <3
14:55:36	—	@iruka11 heee. I'm on episode 2 pa lang of you're beautiful! but, sad, wala akong .srt ng one of the later eps :-(
17:41:17	—	@iruka11 \o/! I just need the .srt of episode 11 if you have it XDD The rest I can get from my source
17:52:36	—	@iruka11 YAY thank you!

Total: 5 tweets

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