I have need to install a couple perl modules onto my test environment (JSON and JSON::XS). However, the test environment, which mirrors production, can't have gcc installed. I do have a dev environment with gcc installed. I've used CPAN to download and compile these modules.
The issue is, how can I migrate them now from my dev environment to my UAT (and ultimately production) environments? All the environments are identical architecture, etc.
Thanks in advance.
Both of these modules are available pre-packaged for RHEL. They are in the EPEL repository. Once you've configured your system to use this repository then installing the modules is as simple as sudo yum install perl-JSON perl-JSON-XS.
If you or your management are uncomfortable with using third-party repositories, then another option would be to download the tarball from CPAN and build your own RPM using somelike like cpanspec and rpmbuild.
If you're working on a Red Hat system then using the native packaging system is almost certainly the easiest way to get software onto different environments.
