"CPAN" = Comprehensive Perl Archive Network a worldwide collection of anonymous ftp sites for Perl et al (not to be confused with CTAN which is for TeX). The files of particular interest to a perl/Tk programmer include:
Updated: Thu May 16 01:13:37 EDT 1996
Africa South Africa ftp://ftp.is.co.za/programming/perl/CPAN/ 196.4.160.8 Asia Hong Kong ftp://ftp.hkstar.com/pub/CPAN/ 202.82.0.80 Japan ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/lang/perl/CPAN/ 192.26.91.3 Taiwan ftp://dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw/perl/CPAN/ 140.115.25.3 Australasia Australia ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/pub/perl/CPAN/ 150.203.76.2 ftp://ftp.mame.mu.oz.au/pub/perl/CPAN/ 128.250.209.2 New Zealand ftp://ftp.tekotago.ac.nz/pub/perl/CPAN/ 202.49.6.24 Europe Austria ftp://ftp.tuwien.ac.at/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ 128.130.66.11 Czech Republic ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ 194.50.16.66 Denmark ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ 130.225.51.30 Finland ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ 128.214.248.6 France ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/perl/CPAN/ 132.227.77.2 ftp://ftp.pasteur.fr/pub/computing/unix/perl/CPAN/ 157.99.64.12 Germany ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/programming/languages/perl/CPAN/ 131.159.0.252 ftp://ftp.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/CPAN/ 134.147.32.42 Greece ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/perl/ 147.102.222.210 Hungary ftp://ftp.kfki.hu/pub/packages/perl/CPAN/ 148.6.0.5 the Netherlands ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/PERL/CPAN/ 131.211.80.17 Poland ftp://ftp.pk.edu.pl/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ 149.156.132.152 ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/CPAN/ 148.81.209.2 Portugal ftp://ftp.ci.uminho.pt/pub/lang/perl/ 193.136.16.247 Slovenia ftp://ftp.arnes.si/software/perl/CPAN/ 193.2.1.72 Spain ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/CPAN/ 130.206.1.2 Sweden ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ 130.238.127.3 Switzerland ftp://ftp.switch.ch/mirror/CPAN/ 130.59.1.40 UK ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/perl/CPAN/ 158.152.1.44 ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/CPAN/ 146.169.17.5 ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/perl-CPAN/ 129.12.200.129 North America British Columbia ftp://mango.pinc.com/pub/mirrors/CPAN/ 204.174.113.53 California ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/perl/CPAN/ 204.123.2.4 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/perl/CPAN/ 165.113.58.253 Colorado ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/ 128.138.243.20 Florida ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/ 128.227.162.34 Illinois ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ 128.174.5.14 Massachusetts ftp://ftp.iguide.com/pub/mirrors/packages/perl/CPAN/ 206.15.105.99 Oklahoma ftp://ftp.uoknor.edu/mirrors/CPAN/ 129.15.2.40 Texas ftp://ftp.sedl.org/pub/mirrors/CPAN/ 198.213.9.194 ftp://ftp.metronet.com/pub/perl/ 192.245.137.6 ftp://ftp.sterling.com/CPAN/ 198.4.58.3 South America Chile ftp://sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/Lang/perl/CPAN/ 146.83.4.11For those equipped with multi-protocol browsers you might pay a visit to Tom Christiansen's CPAN multiplexer whose relevant Tk URLs are:
http://perl.com/cgi-bin/cpan_mod?module=Tk http://perl.com/cgi-bin/cpan_mod?module=Tk&readme=1According to Stephen P. Potter some of the CPAN sites have decompression on the fly for people who do not have programs like
gunzip
. For example,
at the ufl site (Florida USA) type this into your ftp session to download a
gunzipped version of Tk:
ftp> get Tk-b11.02.tar.gz Tk-b11.02.tarIf you have the appropriate CPAN and FTP modules already installed you can retrieve a module from CPAN and carry out a complete installation with a perl one-liner like this:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Tk"'For more information on CPAN you can send e-mail to the CPAN administrators, <cpan-adm@ftp.funet.fi>. If you know of some Perl resources that seem not to be in the CPAN (you did check the contents listings in indices/, didn't you?) please tell the CPAN administrators. If you have some modules/scripts/documentation yourself that you would like to contribute to CPAN, please read the file authors/00upload.howto and let the CPAN administrators know about it.
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