CPAN-shell install

Short intro on howto use the CPAN shell for installing perl modules

Note: If there is a package for the perl-module you wish to install in the distribution of your operating system, we recommend to use the package management system instead of CPAN shell.

Prerequisites

• Perl is installed
• The CPAN module is installed. We recommend to use the package management system of you operating system distribution to install it. (or download from: http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN/).

Starting the cpan shell

You need to become a privileged user to install perl-modules (On small/semi-professional/Linux installations this is often root).

type

perl -MCPAN -e shell

Configuring cpan shell

When started for the first time, cpan-shell will ask you a few questions for interactive configuration. Take special care about selecting CPAN mirror sites close to you and about your proxy settings.

Installing modules

To install the module My::Module from within the cpan-shell type

install My::Module

cpan-shell will download the module source code, make and install it automatically.

For more information about the interactive install or trouble-shooting consult the documentation of the CPAN module.