Installing PERL modules using CPAN
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Installing PERL modules using CPAN Organic Design procedure |
Documentation is available at perldoc CPAN.
Searching CPAN
The website http://search.cpan.org provides a search box to search for keywords associated with packages.
Installing modules
Once you know the module name you would like to install, you need to sudo as root and install the module, e.g.
sudo -s
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Statistics::ChiSquare'Interactive CPAN environment
Type;
perl -MCPAN -s shell
# list of useful commands
help # list of available commands
o conf # configuration of CPAN
r # reinstall recommendations
i /statistics/ # pattern searching of authors, bundles, distributions, modules
get [Package] # fetch
make
install
