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CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, a code and documentation archive of over 100,000 open-source Perl modules across more than 25,000 distributions written by more than 10,000 authors. This tag is not for general Perl questions; use the [perl] tag instead.

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is an open-source code and documentation archive of over 100,000 Perl modules across more than 25,000 distributions written by more than 10,000 authors.

CPAN has been online since October 1995 and is constantly growing. CPAN's main purpose is to provide a distributed repository for Perl programmers to locate, install, and share open source modules and code snippets.

Installable files on the CPAN are known as distributions. A distribution consists of one or more modules, documentation files (generally in perldoc), or scripts. Distributions are typically packaged with an install script called Makefile.PL or Build.PL.

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Documentation

CPAN Installation tools for end users

CPAN - the classic CPAN command line install shell
CPANPLUS - an updated API and command line interface to CPAN intended to be more scriptable
cpanminus - a faster and more concise CPAN installer
CPAN::Mini - create a minimal mirror of CPAN

Modules used for creating install/distribution scripts

ExtUtils::MakeMaker - the venerable module used to generate a make file via Makefile.PL.
Module::Install - a drop-in replacement for ExtUtils::MakeMaker that provides more intuitive features and customization for module authors
Module::Build - a mostly pure Perl alternative to ExtUtils::MakeMaker, which does not rely on a system make command.
Dist::Zilla - distribution builder
pip - Perl Installation Program

Related Links

meta::cpan - a modern search interface for CPAN
rt.cpan.org - default bug tracker available to all CPAN authors
mirrors.cpan.org - status of CPAN mirrors
pause.cpan.org - The Perl Authors Upload Server; register as a CPAN developer and maintain your distributions
CPAN Testers - Automated testing of all CPAN distributions
CPANTS - Provides a Kwalitee rating for CPAN distributions
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How to fetch the value of a HTML tag using HTML::Tree?

Lets say i have an array which holds the contents of the body tag like shown below: print Dumper(\@array); $VAR1 = [

perl cpan html-tree html-treebuilder

asked Mar 16 '14 at 10:57

user3199303

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Weird JSON output for filepaths

I'm using JSON::XS, and I'm getting some weird output from an encoding of some file paths. To create the output, I just call encode_json on some data that I get from calling a dir command from perl (using ``). Which I save in an array. I end up with…

json perl cpan

asked Mar 13 '14 at 11:11

user3046061

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can't install Net::Pcap module

I am trying to install Net::pacp module ,I followed the below steps 1.$ perl Makefile.PL INC=-I/opt/pcap/include LIBS='-L/opt/pcap/lib -lpcap' which produces output as looking for -lpcap... yes checking for pcap_lib_version() in -lpcap...…

perl network-programming perl-module cpan

asked Mar 11 '14 at 06:57

ar777

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Comparing modules available in different Strawberry Perl versions?

Background: We have recently got into some confusion, because one developer used Strawberry Perl 5.14.4.1 while the our buildserver uses 5.14.2. However, 5.14.4.1 contains more modules, so the script didn't work on the server. Fix is obvious: Use…

perl perl-module cpan strawberry-perl

asked Mar 10 '14 at 11:48

Martin Ba

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How can I build cpan modules on 64-bit windows server 2012?

How can I build cpan modules on 64-bit windows server 2012? This is the error message: It looks like you don't have a C compiler and make utility installed. Trying to install dmake and the MinGW64 gcc compiler using the Perl Package Manager. This…

perl cpan activestate

asked Mar 05 '14 at 09:00

Yishu Fang

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Parse::ABNF perl usage

I need to parse the SIP headers (grammar in ABNF format) and verify if my Header strings are ok or not. (Example: check strings like "Accept: application/sdp,application/3gpp-imp+xml" to provide testcase pass/fail). Currently I am trying to use…

perl parsing sip cpan abnf

asked Feb 21 '14 at 07:43

user3336154

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Install cpan modules through perl script?

I want a perl script that will install all the cpan modules automatically when running the perl script.Can you help this?

perl cpan

asked Feb 18 '14 at 10:52

user3248333

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shell/bash script to install cpan modules automatically

I want a shell script that will find the directory where perl is installed in local system, open that perl, and install all the CPAN modules automatically.

bash shell perl cpan

asked Feb 11 '14 at 09:59

user3248333

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Error installing Net::LDAP on Oracle Enterprise Linux

I am trying to install the Net::LDAP module on an OEL box using CPAN, but I get the following error: [root ~]# cpan -i Net::LDAP CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Could not pipe[ --decompress…

linux perl centos cpan

asked Feb 06 '14 at 17:22

kavuru

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Perl CPAN Neo4p retrieve RETURN count object

I am using PERL's CPAN Neo4p module, already define a cypher query of Neo4j. But the return type is "count" function. Count for the numbers of return apgd results. The code is: my $query = REST::Neo4p::Query->new( "match…

perl neo4j cpan

asked Feb 03 '14 at 10:16

Eric C.Y. Lee

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cpan install switch failed

im newbie and learn Perl programming. Im confused about cpan, i know there is thousand library for support perl, but, how to install library from cpan ? im using cpan in linux, when i try to install switch, i have error message cpan[1]> install…

linux perl cpan

asked Jan 13 '14 at 12:44

febrian_reza

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CPAN install module failed: don't know what it is

I am installing this module in Ubuntu: http://metacpan.org/pod/CatalystX::DynamicComponent::ModelsFromConfig with bash command: sudo cpan CatalystX::DynamicComponent::ModelsFromConfig However I always get this message: Warning: Cannot install…

perl cpan catalyst

asked Jan 13 '14 at 05:10

wing_hk

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Error install IO::Pty perl

install IO::Pty cpan Tty.xs:54:23: sys/ioctl.h: No such file or directory Tty.xs: In function `make_safe_fd': Tty.xs:225: error: `F_DUPFD' undeclared (first use in this function) Tty.xs:225: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only…

perl cpan net-sftp

asked Jan 03 '14 at 09:48

varun Goswami

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Why can't my Perl program find Array::Utils?

use Array::Utils qw(:all);# it showing error my @array1 = (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 23, 8, 14, 95, 19); my @array2 = (3, 14, 6, 22, 88, 19, 100); my@isect = intersect(@array1,@array2); print @isect,$/; The use Array::Utils qw(:all);# it showing error.Can't…

arrays perl module cpan

asked Dec 27 '13 at 06:08

user3138547

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How to install a single Perl Crypt::OpenSSL::AES for use by different linux environments

I have a sticky problem that I am not quite sure how to solve. The situation is as follows: We have a common 32bit perl 5.10.0 It is used by both 32bit and 64bit linux machines Now the problem is that I need to install Crypt::OpenSSL::AES module…

linux perl openssl cpan

asked Dec 17 '13 at 03:13

GKK

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