Have install-perl-modules tool

3 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dd6260a..181cdaf 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Changes in version 2.0rc3
 	* Template cleanup: fix a link and add links to .txt versions
 	  to front page.
 	* Add sendpings command.
+	* Have install-perl-modules tool.
 
 Changes in version 2.0rc2 - 2002-09-08
 	* Reopen stdin to /dev/null instead of closing it to avoid
diff --git a/README b/README
index fdb0097..eead281 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: README,v 1.30 2002/08/25 09:33:43 weasel Exp $
+$Id: README,v 1.31 2002/09/12 04:28:40 weasel Exp $
 #####################################################################
 ##  R E A D M E   F O R   E C H O L O T   ###########################
 #####################################################################
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ Indirect requirements:
 	Class:MethodMaker (by GnuPG::Interface)
 	File::Spec (by HTML::Template, should be in more recent perl-base)
 
+  If you have the CPAN perl module installed, you can use the
+  »install-perl-modules« script in the tools directory to download and
+  install the needed perl moduesl.
+
 SETUP
 -----
 
diff --git a/tools/install-perl-modules b/tools/install-perl-modules
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3848e8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/install-perl-modules
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#! /usr/bin/perl -w
+
+# This script installs all perl libraries Echolot needs
+# using your CPAN module
+
+use strict;
+use CPAN;
+
+for my $mod (qw{Data::Dumper Digest::MD5 HTML::Template GnuPG::Interface}) {
+	my $obj = CPAN::Shell->expand('Module',$mod);
+	$obj->install();
+};