CPAN Edit

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Created 3/27/2007, updated 3/12/2020

The CPAN or Comprehensive Perl Archive Network is an archive of Perl software and a package manager for working with (installing, upgrading, removing) that software.

Basic use

Getting into the shell

sudo -H cpan

Installing a module

sudo -H perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'

Or alternatively:

sudo -H cpan Bundle::CPAN

Upgrading all installed modules

sudo -H cpan upgrade

See also

Official CPAN site: http://www.cpan.org/
Wikipedia article on the CPAN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPAN
"Life with CPAN": http://sial.org/howto/perl/life-with-cpan/
Finding out which CPAN modules are installed