What s the easiest way to install a missing Perl module

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I get this error   Can t locate Foo pm in  INC  Is there an easier way to install it than downloading  untarring  making  etc

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On Fedora you can use    yum install foo   as long as Fedora has an existing package for the module

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2 ways that I know of    USING PPM    With Windows  ActivePerl  I ve used ppm  from the command line type ppm  At the ppm prompt        ppm gt  install foo   or   ppm gt  search foo   to get a list of foo modules available   Type help for all the commands  USING CPAN    you can also use CPAN like this   nix systems     perl -MCPAN -e  shell    gets you a prompt  cpan gt    at the prompt      cpan gt  install foo   again to install the foo module    type h to get a list of commands for cpan

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sudo perl -MCPAN -e  install Foo

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sudo perl -MCPAN -e  install Foo

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Lots of recommendation for CPAN pm  which is great  but if you re using Perl 5 10 then you ve also got access to CPANPLUS pm which is like CPAN pm but better   And  of course  it s available on CPAN for people still using older versions of Perl  Why not try     cpan CPANPLUS

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On Fedora you can use    yum install foo   as long as Fedora has an existing package for the module

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On Fedora Linux or Enterprise Linux  yum also tracks perl library dependencies  So  if the perl module is available  and some rpm package exports that dependency  it will install the right package for you   yum install  perl Chocolate  Belgian      most likely perl-Chocolate-Belgian package  or even ChocolateFactory package

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Otto made a good suggestion   This works for Debian too  as well as any other Debian derivative   The missing piece is what to do when apt-cache search doesn t find something     sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl build-essential apt-file   sudo apt-file update   Then whenever you have a random module you wish to install     cd   some path   dh-make-perl --build --cpan Some  Random  Module   sudo dpkg -i libsome-random-module-perl-0 01-1 i386 deb   This will give you a deb package that you can install to get Some  Random  Module   One of the big benefits here is man pages and sample scripts in addition to the module itself will be placed in your distro s location of choice   If the distro ever comes out with an official package for a newer version of Some  Random  Module  it will automatically be installed when you apt-get upgrade

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On Unix  usually you start cpan in your shell    cpan and type install Chocolate  Belgian or in short form  cpan Chocolate  Belgian On Windows   If you re using ActivePerl on Windows  the PPM  Perl Package Manager  has much of the same functionality as CPAN pm   Example    ppm ppm gt  search net-smtp ppm gt  install Net-SMTP-Multipart see How do I install Perl modules  in the CPAN FAQ Many distributions ship a lot of perl modules as packages   Debian Ubuntu  apt-cache search  perl   Arch Linux  pacman -Ss   perl-  Gentoo  category dev-perl  You should always prefer them as you benefit from automatic  security  updates and the ease of removal  This can be pretty tricky with the cpan tool itself  For Gentoo there s a nice tool called g-cpan which builds installs the module from CPAN and creates a Gentoo package  ebuild  for you

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Simply executing cpan Foo  Bar on shell would serve the purpose

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2 ways that I know of    USING PPM    With Windows  ActivePerl  I ve used ppm  from the command line type ppm  At the ppm prompt        ppm gt  install foo   or   ppm gt  search foo   to get a list of foo modules available   Type help for all the commands  USING CPAN    you can also use CPAN like this   nix systems     perl -MCPAN -e  shell    gets you a prompt  cpan gt    at the prompt      cpan gt  install foo   again to install the foo module    type h to get a list of commands for cpan

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Try App  cpanminus     cpanm Chocolate  Belgian   It s great for just getting stuff installed  It provides none of the more complex functionality of CPAN or CPANPLUS  so it s easy to use  provided you know which module you want to install  If you haven t already got cpanminus  just type     cpan App  cpanminus   to install it   It is also possible to install it without using cpan at all   The basic bootstrap procedure is   curl -L http   cpanmin us   perl - --sudo App  cpanminus   For more information go to the App  cpanminus page and look at the section on installation

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sudo perl -MCPAN -e  install Foo

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If you want to put the new module into a custom location that your cpan shell isn t configured to use  then perhaps  the following will be handy     wget  lt URL to the module tgz gt     unpack  perl Build PL   Build destdir  HOME install base  HOME   Build destdir  HOME install base  HOME install

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If you re on Ubuntu and you want to install the pre-packaged perl module  for example  geo  ipfree  try this          apt-cache search perl geo  ipfree     libgeo-ipfree-perl - A look up country of ip address Perl module        sudo apt-get install libgeo-ipfree-perl

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On Fedora Linux or Enterprise Linux  yum also tracks perl library dependencies  So  if the perl module is available  and some rpm package exports that dependency  it will install the right package for you   yum install  perl Chocolate  Belgian      most likely perl-Chocolate-Belgian package  or even ChocolateFactory package

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A couple of people mentioned the cpan utility  but it s more than just starting a shell  Just give it the modules that you want to install and let it do it s work     prompt gt  cpan Foo  Bar   If you don t give it any arguments it starts the CPAN pm shell  This works on Unix  Mac  and should be just fine on Windows  especially Strawberry Perl    There are several other things that you can do with the cpan tool as well  Here s a summary of the current features  which might be newer than the one that comes with CPAN pm and perl    -a Creates the CPAN pm autobundle with CPAN  Shell- gt autobundle   -A module   module       Shows the primary maintainers for the specified modules  -C module   module       Show the Changes files for the specified modules  -D module   module       Show the module details  This prints one line for each out-of-date module  meaning  modules locally installed but have newer versions on CPAN   Each line has three columns  module name  local version  and CPAN version   -L author   author       List the modules by the specified authors   -h Prints a help message   -O Show the out-of-date modules   -r Recompiles dynamically loaded modules with CPAN  Shell- gt recompile   -v Print the script version and CPAN pm version

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Otto made a good suggestion   This works for Debian too  as well as any other Debian derivative   The missing piece is what to do when apt-cache search doesn t find something     sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl build-essential apt-file   sudo apt-file update   Then whenever you have a random module you wish to install     cd   some path   dh-make-perl --build --cpan Some  Random  Module   sudo dpkg -i libsome-random-module-perl-0 01-1 i386 deb   This will give you a deb package that you can install to get Some  Random  Module   One of the big benefits here is man pages and sample scripts in addition to the module itself will be placed in your distro s location of choice   If the distro ever comes out with an official package for a newer version of Some  Random  Module  it will automatically be installed when you apt-get upgrade

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Many times it does happen that cpan install command fails with the message like  make test had returned bad status  won t install without force   In that case following is the way to install the module   perl -MCPAN -e  CPAN  Shell- gt force qw install Foo  Bar

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2 ways that I know of    USING PPM    With Windows  ActivePerl  I ve used ppm  from the command line type ppm  At the ppm prompt        ppm gt  install foo   or   ppm gt  search foo   to get a list of foo modules available   Type help for all the commands  USING CPAN    you can also use CPAN like this   nix systems     perl -MCPAN -e  shell    gets you a prompt  cpan gt    at the prompt      cpan gt  install foo   again to install the foo module    type h to get a list of commands for cpan

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Many times it does happen that cpan install command fails with the message like  make test had returned bad status  won t install without force   In that case following is the way to install the module   perl -MCPAN -e  CPAN  Shell- gt force qw install Foo  Bar

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Easiest way for me is this   PERL MM USE DEFAULT 1 perl -MCPAN -e  install DateTime  TimeZone    a  automatic recursive dependency detection resolving installing   b  it s a shell onliner  good for setup-scripts

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Seems like you ve already got your answer but I figured I d chime in   This is what I do in some scripts on an Ubuntu  or debian server      usr bin perl  use warnings  use strict    I ve gotten into the habit of setting this on all my scripts  prevents weird path issues if the script is not being run by root  ENV  PATH       usr local sbin  usr local bin  usr sbin  usr bin  sbin  bin     Fill this with the perl modules required for your project my  perl   qw LWP  Simple XML  LibXML MIME  Lite DBI DateTime Config  Tiny Proc  ProcessTable    chomp my  curl    which curl     if   curl   system  apt-get install curl -y  gt   dev null       chomp my  cpanm   system   bin bash    -c    which cpanm  amp  gt  dev null       installs cpanm if missing if  cpanm   system  curl -s -L http   cpanmin us   perl - --sudo App  cpanminus        loops through required modules and installs them if missing foreach my  x   perl       eval  use  x       if              system  cpanm  x            eval  use  x             This works well for me  maybe there is something here you can use

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Already answered and accepted answer - but anyway   IMHO the easiest way installing CPAN modules  on unix like systems  and have no idea about the wondows  is   curl -L http   cpanmin us   perl - --sudo App  cpanminus   The above is installing the  zero configuration CPAN modules installer  called cpanm   Can take several minutes to install - don t break the process   and after - simply   cpanm Foo cpanm Module  One cpanm Another  Module

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If you want to put the new module into a custom location that your cpan shell isn t configured to use  then perhaps  the following will be handy     wget  lt URL to the module tgz gt     unpack  perl Build PL   Build destdir  HOME install base  HOME   Build destdir  HOME install base  HOME install

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Sometimes you can use the yum search foo to search the relative perl module  then use yum install xxx to install

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Even it should work   cpan -i module name

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Lots of recommendation for CPAN pm  which is great  but if you re using Perl 5 10 then you ve also got access to CPANPLUS pm which is like CPAN pm but better   And  of course  it s available on CPAN for people still using older versions of Perl  Why not try     cpan CPANPLUS

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Otto made a good suggestion   This works for Debian too  as well as any other Debian derivative   The missing piece is what to do when apt-cache search doesn t find something     sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl build-essential apt-file   sudo apt-file update   Then whenever you have a random module you wish to install     cd   some path   dh-make-perl --build --cpan Some  Random  Module   sudo dpkg -i libsome-random-module-perl-0 01-1 i386 deb   This will give you a deb package that you can install to get Some  Random  Module   One of the big benefits here is man pages and sample scripts in addition to the module itself will be placed in your distro s location of choice   If the distro ever comes out with an official package for a newer version of Some  Random  Module  it will automatically be installed when you apt-get upgrade

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Simply executing cpan Foo  Bar on shell would serve the purpose

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Already answered and accepted answer - but anyway   IMHO the easiest way installing CPAN modules  on unix like systems  and have no idea about the wondows  is   curl -L http   cpanmin us   perl - --sudo App  cpanminus   The above is installing the  zero configuration CPAN modules installer  called cpanm   Can take several minutes to install - don t break the process   and after - simply   cpanm Foo cpanm Module  One cpanm Another  Module

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Lots of recommendation for CPAN pm  which is great  but if you re using Perl 5 10 then you ve also got access to CPANPLUS pm which is like CPAN pm but better   And  of course  it s available on CPAN for people still using older versions of Perl  Why not try     cpan CPANPLUS

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On Windows with the ActiveState distribution of Perl  use the ppm command

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Also see Yes  even you can use CPAN  It shows how you can use CPAN without having root or sudo access

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Seems like you ve already got your answer but I figured I d chime in   This is what I do in some scripts on an Ubuntu  or debian server      usr bin perl  use warnings  use strict    I ve gotten into the habit of setting this on all my scripts  prevents weird path issues if the script is not being run by root  ENV  PATH       usr local sbin  usr local bin  usr sbin  usr bin  sbin  bin     Fill this with the perl modules required for your project my  perl   qw LWP  Simple XML  LibXML MIME  Lite DBI DateTime Config  Tiny Proc  ProcessTable    chomp my  curl    which curl     if   curl   system  apt-get install curl -y  gt   dev null       chomp my  cpanm   system   bin bash    -c    which cpanm  amp  gt  dev null       installs cpanm if missing if  cpanm   system  curl -s -L http   cpanmin us   perl - --sudo App  cpanminus        loops through required modules and installs them if missing foreach my  x   perl       eval  use  x       if              system  cpanm  x            eval  use  x             This works well for me  maybe there is something here you can use

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On ubuntu most perl modules are already packaged  so installing is much faster than most other systems which have to compile   To install Foo  Bar at a commmand prompt for example usually you just do   sudo apt-get install libfoo-bar-perl   Sadly not all modules follow that naming convention

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On Windows with the ActiveState distribution of Perl  use the ppm command

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Easiest way for me is this   PERL MM USE DEFAULT 1 perl -MCPAN -e  install DateTime  TimeZone    a  automatic recursive dependency detection resolving installing   b  it s a shell onliner  good for setup-scripts

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If you re on Ubuntu and you want to install the pre-packaged perl module  for example  geo  ipfree  try this          apt-cache search perl geo  ipfree     libgeo-ipfree-perl - A look up country of ip address Perl module        sudo apt-get install libgeo-ipfree-perl

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Even it should work   cpan -i module name

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Also see Yes  even you can use CPAN  It shows how you can use CPAN without having root or sudo access

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Also see Yes  even you can use CPAN  It shows how you can use CPAN without having root or sudo access

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Secure solution  Many answers mention the use of the cpan utility  which uses CPAN pm  without a word on security  By default  CPAN 2 27 and earlier configures urllist to use a http URL  namely  http   www cpan org    which allows MITM attacks  thus is insecure  This is what is used to download the CHECKSUMS files  so that it needs to be changed to a secure URL  e g  https   www cpan org     So  after running cpan and accepting the default configuration  you need to modify the generated MyConfig pm file  the full path is output  in the following way  Replace   urllist    gt   q http   www cpan org       by   urllist    gt   q https   www cpan org       Note  https is not sufficient  you also need a web site you can trust  So  be careful if you want to choose some arbitrary mirror   Then you can use cpan in the usual way   My bug report on rt cpan org about the insecure URL

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If you re on Ubuntu and you want to install the pre-packaged perl module  for example  geo  ipfree  try this          apt-cache search perl geo  ipfree     libgeo-ipfree-perl - A look up country of ip address Perl module        sudo apt-get install libgeo-ipfree-perl

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Also see Yes  even you can use CPAN  It shows how you can use CPAN without having root or sudo access

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I note some folks suggesting one run cpan under sudo  That used to be necessary to install into the system directory  but modern versions of the CPAN shell allow you to configure it to use sudo just for installing  This is much safer  since it means that tests don t run as root   If you have an old CPAN shell  simply install the new cpan   install CPAN   and when you reload the shell  it should prompt you to configure these new directives   Nowadays  when I m on a system with an old CPAN  the first thing I do is update the shell and set it up to do this so I can do most of my cpan work as a normal user   Also  I d strongly suggest that Windows users investigate strawberry Perl  This is a version of Perl that comes packaged with a pre-configured CPAN shell as well as a compiler  It also includes some hard-to-compile Perl modules with their external C library dependencies  notably XML  Parser  This means that you can do the same thing as every other Perl user when it comes to installing modules  and things tend to  just work  a lot more often

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A couple of people mentioned the cpan utility  but it s more than just starting a shell  Just give it the modules that you want to install and let it do it s work     prompt gt  cpan Foo  Bar   If you don t give it any arguments it starts the CPAN pm shell  This works on Unix  Mac  and should be just fine on Windows  especially Strawberry Perl    There are several other things that you can do with the cpan tool as well  Here s a summary of the current features  which might be newer than the one that comes with CPAN pm and perl    -a Creates the CPAN pm autobundle with CPAN  Shell- gt autobundle   -A module   module       Shows the primary maintainers for the specified modules  -C module   module       Show the Changes files for the specified modules  -D module   module       Show the module details  This prints one line for each out-of-date module  meaning  modules locally installed but have newer versions on CPAN   Each line has three columns  module name  local version  and CPAN version   -L author   author       List the modules by the specified authors   -h Prints a help message   -O Show the out-of-date modules   -r Recompiles dynamically loaded modules with CPAN  Shell- gt recompile   -v Print the script version and CPAN pm version

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On Fedora you can use    yum install foo   as long as Fedora has an existing package for the module

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On Fedora you can use    yum install foo   as long as Fedora has an existing package for the module

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I note some folks suggesting one run cpan under sudo  That used to be necessary to install into the system directory  but modern versions of the CPAN shell allow you to configure it to use sudo just for installing  This is much safer  since it means that tests don t run as root   If you have an old CPAN shell  simply install the new cpan   install CPAN   and when you reload the shell  it should prompt you to configure these new directives   Nowadays  when I m on a system with an old CPAN  the first thing I do is update the shell and set it up to do this so I can do most of my cpan work as a normal user   Also  I d strongly suggest that Windows users investigate strawberry Perl  This is a version of Perl that comes packaged with a pre-configured CPAN shell as well as a compiler  It also includes some hard-to-compile Perl modules with their external C library dependencies  notably XML  Parser  This means that you can do the same thing as every other Perl user when it comes to installing modules  and things tend to  just work  a lot more often

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On Unix  usually you start cpan in your shell    cpan and type install Chocolate  Belgian or in short form  cpan Chocolate  Belgian On Windows   If you re using ActivePerl on Windows  the PPM  Perl Package Manager  has much of the same functionality as CPAN pm   Example    ppm ppm gt  search net-smtp ppm gt  install Net-SMTP-Multipart see How do I install Perl modules  in the CPAN FAQ Many distributions ship a lot of perl modules as packages   Debian Ubuntu  apt-cache search  perl   Arch Linux  pacman -Ss   perl-  Gentoo  category dev-perl  You should always prefer them as you benefit from automatic  security  updates and the ease of removal  This can be pretty tricky with the cpan tool itself  For Gentoo there s a nice tool called g-cpan which builds installs the module from CPAN and creates a Gentoo package  ebuild  for you

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A couple of people mentioned the cpan utility  but it s more than just starting a shell  Just give it the modules that you want to install and let it do it s work     prompt gt  cpan Foo  Bar   If you don t give it any arguments it starts the CPAN pm shell  This works on Unix  Mac  and should be just fine on Windows  especially Strawberry Perl    There are several other things that you can do with the cpan tool as well  Here s a summary of the current features  which might be newer than the one that comes with CPAN pm and perl    -a Creates the CPAN pm autobundle with CPAN  Shell- gt autobundle   -A module   module       Shows the primary maintainers for the specified modules  -C module   module       Show the Changes files for the specified modules  -D module   module       Show the module details  This prints one line for each out-of-date module  meaning  modules locally installed but have newer versions on CPAN   Each line has three columns  module name  local version  and CPAN version   -L author   author       List the modules by the specified authors   -h Prints a help message   -O Show the out-of-date modules   -r Recompiles dynamically loaded modules with CPAN  Shell- gt recompile   -v Print the script version and CPAN pm version

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Use cpan command as cpan Modulename    cpan HTML  Parser   To install dependencies automatically follow the below    perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan 1  gt   o conf prerequisites policy follow cpan 2  gt   o conf commit exit   I prefer App  cpanminus  it installs dependencies automatically  Just do    cpanm HTML  Parser

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2 ways that I know of    USING PPM    With Windows  ActivePerl  I ve used ppm  from the command line type ppm  At the ppm prompt        ppm gt  install foo   or   ppm gt  search foo   to get a list of foo modules available   Type help for all the commands  USING CPAN    you can also use CPAN like this   nix systems     perl -MCPAN -e  shell    gets you a prompt  cpan gt    at the prompt      cpan gt  install foo   again to install the foo module    type h to get a list of commands for cpan

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I note some folks suggesting one run cpan under sudo  That used to be necessary to install into the system directory  but modern versions of the CPAN shell allow you to configure it to use sudo just for installing  This is much safer  since it means that tests don t run as root   If you have an old CPAN shell  simply install the new cpan   install CPAN   and when you reload the shell  it should prompt you to configure these new directives   Nowadays  when I m on a system with an old CPAN  the first thing I do is update the shell and set it up to do this so I can do most of my cpan work as a normal user   Also  I d strongly suggest that Windows users investigate strawberry Perl  This is a version of Perl that comes packaged with a pre-configured CPAN shell as well as a compiler  It also includes some hard-to-compile Perl modules with their external C library dependencies  notably XML  Parser  This means that you can do the same thing as every other Perl user when it comes to installing modules  and things tend to  just work  a lot more often

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Use cpan command as cpan Modulename    cpan HTML  Parser   To install dependencies automatically follow the below    perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan 1  gt   o conf prerequisites policy follow cpan 2  gt   o conf commit exit   I prefer App  cpanminus  it installs dependencies automatically  Just do    cpanm HTML  Parser

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Secure solution  Many answers mention the use of the cpan utility  which uses CPAN pm  without a word on security  By default  CPAN 2 27 and earlier configures urllist to use a http URL  namely  http   www cpan org    which allows MITM attacks  thus is insecure  This is what is used to download the CHECKSUMS files  so that it needs to be changed to a secure URL  e g  https   www cpan org     So  after running cpan and accepting the default configuration  you need to modify the generated MyConfig pm file  the full path is output  in the following way  Replace   urllist    gt   q http   www cpan org       by   urllist    gt   q https   www cpan org       Note  https is not sufficient  you also need a web site you can trust  So  be careful if you want to choose some arbitrary mirror   Then you can use cpan in the usual way   My bug report on rt cpan org about the insecure URL

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A couple of people mentioned the cpan utility  but it s more than just starting a shell  Just give it the modules that you want to install and let it do it s work     prompt gt  cpan Foo  Bar   If you don t give it any arguments it starts the CPAN pm shell  This works on Unix  Mac  and should be just fine on Windows  especially Strawberry Perl    There are several other things that you can do with the cpan tool as well  Here s a summary of the current features  which might be newer than the one that comes with CPAN pm and perl    -a Creates the CPAN pm autobundle with CPAN  Shell- gt autobundle   -A module   module       Shows the primary maintainers for the specified modules  -C module   module       Show the Changes files for the specified modules  -D module   module       Show the module details  This prints one line for each out-of-date module  meaning  modules locally installed but have newer versions on CPAN   Each line has three columns  module name  local version  and CPAN version   -L author   author       List the modules by the specified authors   -h Prints a help message   -O Show the out-of-date modules   -r Recompiles dynamically loaded modules with CPAN  Shell- gt recompile   -v Print the script version and CPAN pm version

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On Unix  usually you start cpan in your shell    cpan and type install Chocolate  Belgian or in short form  cpan Chocolate  Belgian On Windows   If you re using ActivePerl on Windows  the PPM  Perl Package Manager  has much of the same functionality as CPAN pm   Example    ppm ppm gt  search net-smtp ppm gt  install Net-SMTP-Multipart see How do I install Perl modules  in the CPAN FAQ Many distributions ship a lot of perl modules as packages   Debian Ubuntu  apt-cache search  perl   Arch Linux  pacman -Ss   perl-  Gentoo  category dev-perl  You should always prefer them as you benefit from automatic  security  updates and the ease of removal  This can be pretty tricky with the cpan tool itself  For Gentoo there s a nice tool called g-cpan which builds installs the module from CPAN and creates a Gentoo package  ebuild  for you

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sudo perl -MCPAN -e  install Foo

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Otto made a good suggestion   This works for Debian too  as well as any other Debian derivative   The missing piece is what to do when apt-cache search doesn t find something     sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl build-essential apt-file   sudo apt-file update   Then whenever you have a random module you wish to install     cd   some path   dh-make-perl --build --cpan Some  Random  Module   sudo dpkg -i libsome-random-module-perl-0 01-1 i386 deb   This will give you a deb package that you can install to get Some  Random  Module   One of the big benefits here is man pages and sample scripts in addition to the module itself will be placed in your distro s location of choice   If the distro ever comes out with an official package for a newer version of Some  Random  Module  it will automatically be installed when you apt-get upgrade

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Lots of recommendation for CPAN pm  which is great  but if you re using Perl 5 10 then you ve also got access to CPANPLUS pm which is like CPAN pm but better   And  of course  it s available on CPAN for people still using older versions of Perl  Why not try     cpan CPANPLUS

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I note some folks suggesting one run cpan under sudo  That used to be necessary to install into the system directory  but modern versions of the CPAN shell allow you to configure it to use sudo just for installing  This is much safer  since it means that tests don t run as root   If you have an old CPAN shell  simply install the new cpan   install CPAN   and when you reload the shell  it should prompt you to configure these new directives   Nowadays  when I m on a system with an old CPAN  the first thing I do is update the shell and set it up to do this so I can do most of my cpan work as a normal user   Also  I d strongly suggest that Windows users investigate strawberry Perl  This is a version of Perl that comes packaged with a pre-configured CPAN shell as well as a compiler  It also includes some hard-to-compile Perl modules with their external C library dependencies  notably XML  Parser  This means that you can do the same thing as every other Perl user when it comes to installing modules  and things tend to  just work  a lot more often

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Try App  cpanminus     cpanm Chocolate  Belgian   It s great for just getting stuff installed  It provides none of the more complex functionality of CPAN or CPANPLUS  so it s easy to use  provided you know which module you want to install  If you haven t already got cpanminus  just type     cpan App  cpanminus   to install it   It is also possible to install it without using cpan at all   The basic bootstrap procedure is   curl -L http   cpanmin us   perl - --sudo App  cpanminus   For more information go to the App  cpanminus page and look at the section on installation

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On Windows with the ActiveState distribution of Perl  use the ppm command

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On ubuntu most perl modules are already packaged  so installing is much faster than most other systems which have to compile   To install Foo  Bar at a commmand prompt for example usually you just do   sudo apt-get install libfoo-bar-perl   Sadly not all modules follow that naming convention

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On Unix  usually you start cpan in your shell    cpan and type install Chocolate  Belgian or in short form  cpan Chocolate  Belgian On Windows   If you re using ActivePerl on Windows  the PPM  Perl Package Manager  has much of the same functionality as CPAN pm   Example    ppm ppm gt  search net-smtp ppm gt  install Net-SMTP-Multipart see How do I install Perl modules  in the CPAN FAQ Many distributions ship a lot of perl modules as packages   Debian Ubuntu  apt-cache search  perl   Arch Linux  pacman -Ss   perl-  Gentoo  category dev-perl  You should always prefer them as you benefit from automatic  security  updates and the ease of removal  This can be pretty tricky with the cpan tool itself  For Gentoo there s a nice tool called g-cpan which builds installs the module from CPAN and creates a Gentoo package  ebuild  for you

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Sometimes you can use the yum search foo to search the relative perl module  then use yum install xxx to install

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On Windows with the ActiveState distribution of Perl  use the ppm command

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If you re on Ubuntu and you want to install the pre-packaged perl module  for example  geo  ipfree  try this          apt-cache search perl geo  ipfree     libgeo-ipfree-perl - A look up country of ip address Perl module        sudo apt-get install libgeo-ipfree-perl

[perl] What's the easiest way to install a missing Perl module?

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