How To Install Perl Modules With CPAN?

Posted on 15/11/201626/11/2018 by İsmail Baydan

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Perl is a old and popular scripting language. Todays Python is preferred over Perl but there are a lot of useful tools used already by system administrators. There are generally problem of dependency for Perl scripts. Here we will look how to install required Perl modules in to Linux.

Install Via CPAN

CPAN is very good solution to install modules. It resolves and install dependencies easily. CPAN is very easy to use versus installing modules manually.

CentOS, Fedora

$ yum install perl-CPAN.noarch

1	$ yum install perl-CPAN.noarch

Ubuntu, Debian

$ sudo apt-get install libpath-tiny-perl

1	$ sudo apt-get install libpath-tiny-perl

Install MIME

Now we will install MIME::Lite package from CPAN repositories

# cpan> install MIME::Lite

1	# cpan> install MIME::Lite

Install Perl Modules With CPAN From Bash

We can run installation process without entering CPAN shell like below.

$ cpan -i MIME::Lite

1	$ cpan -i MIME::Lite

-i parameter simple provides install command like in CPAN shell.