(1) Join Apple Developer Blahblah and download your OS X Developer's Kit (aka gcc + make + stuff I haven't heard of before).
(2) Download wget (ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles is my favourite Get ch0re w4r3z site) and install it.
(3) Tell CPAN config that "wget -q" is the path to your ncftpget program. Ho ho.
Rock on.
--Nat
Hoho
gnat on 2002-07-12T03:38:31
CPAN.pm wants to install perl-5.6.1 to get a newer version of the Autoloader. Um, no.
--Nat
Re:Hoho
Elian on 2002-07-12T15:38:52
That's why the first thing you install is CPAN, to get the latest...
Version?
triv on 2002-07-12T04:24:49
Do you have the most recent CPAN.pm? Older versions tended to do that....
FreeBSD Warez?
ziggy on 2002-07-12T04:42:22
Why are you going to the FreeBSD site to get software for OS X?
- Install fink from here
- Just type fink install wget
(Thanks for the pointer about ncftp. I just tolerated it for the few moments until lwp/libnet were installed...)
you need ...
ask on 2002-07-12T07:19:17
... fink - http://fink.sf.net/
And what do you need wget for? curl is distributed with Mac OS X. Better license too.
:-)
- ask
