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App::cpanminus - get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN
cpanm Module
Run "cpanm -h" or "perldoc cpanm" for more options.
cpanminus is a script to get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN and does nothing else.
It's dependency free (can bootstrap itself), requires zero configuration, and stands alone. When running, it requires only 10MB of RAM.
There are several ways to install cpanminus to your system.
There are Debian packages, RPMs, FreeBSD ports, and packages for other operation systems available. If you want to use the package management system, search for cpanminus and use the appropriate command to install. This makes it easy to install "cpanm" to your system without thinking about where to install, and later upgrade.
You can also use the latest cpanminus to install cpanminus itself:
curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo App::cpanminus
This will install "cpanm" to your bin directory like "/usr/local/bin" and you'll need the "--sudo" option to write to the directory, unless you configured "INSTALL_BASE" with local::lib.
If you have perl in your home directory, which is the case if you use tools like perlbrew or plenv, you don't need the "--sudo" option, since you're most likely to have a write permission to the perl's library path. You can just do:
curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus
to install the "cpanm" executable to the perl's bin path, like "~/perl5/perlbrew/bin/cpanm".
You can also copy the standalone executable to whatever location you'd like.
cd ~/bin curl -L https://cpanmin.us/ -o cpanm chmod +x cpanm
This just works, but be sure to grab the new version manually when you upgrade because "--self-upgrade" might not work with this installation setup.
When you run "curl" commands above, you may encounter SSL handshake errors or certification warnings. This is due to your HTTP client (curl) being old, or SSL certificates installed on your system needs to be updated.
You're recommended to update the software or system if you can. If that is impossible or difficult, use the "-k" option with curl or an alternative URL, "https://git.io/cpanm"
perl 5.8.1 or later.
It queries the CPAN Meta DB site at <http://cpanmetadb.plackperl.org/>. The site is updated at least every hour to reflect the latest changes from fast syncing mirrors. The script then also falls back to query the module at <http://metacpan.org/> using its search API.
Upon calling these API hosts, cpanm (1.6004 or later) will send the local perl versions to the server in User-Agent string by default. You can turn it off with "--no-report-perl-version" option. Read more about the option with cpanm, and read more about the privacy policy about this data collection at <http://cpanmetadb.plackperl.org/#privacy>
Fetched files are unpacked in "~/.cpanm" and automatically cleaned up periodically. You can configure the location of this with the "PERL_CPANM_HOME" environment variable.
It installs to wherever ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build are configured to (via "PERL_MM_OPT" and "PERL_MB_OPT").
By default, it installs to the site_perl directory that belongs to your perl. You can see the locations for that by running "perl -V" and it will be likely something under "/opt/local/perl/..." if you're using system perl, or under your home directory if you have built perl yourself using perlbrew or plenv.
If you've already configured local::lib on your shell, cpanm respects that settings and modules will be installed to your local perl5 directory.
At a boot time, cpanminus checks whether you have already configured local::lib, or have a permission to install modules to the site_perl directory. If neither, i.e. you're using system perl and do not run cpanm as a root, it automatically sets up local::lib compatible installation path in a "perl5" directory under your home directory.
To avoid this, run "cpanm" either as a root user, with "--sudo" option, or with "--local-lib" option.
It is more likely a problem with the distribution itself. cpanminus doesn't support or may have issues with distributions such as follows:
These failures can be reported back to the author of the module so that they can fix it accordingly, rather than to cpanminus.
Most likely not. Here are the things that cpanm doesn't do by itself.
If you need these features, use CPAN, CPANPLUS or the standalone tools that are mentioned.
See cpanm or "cpanm -h" to see what cpanminus can do :)
Copyright 2010- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
The standalone executable contains the following modules embedded.
This software is licensed under the same terms as Perl.
Patches and code improvements were contributed by:
Goro Fuji, Kazuhiro Osawa, Tokuhiro Matsuno, Kenichi Ishigaki, Ian Wells, Pedro Melo, Masayoshi Sekimura, Matt S Trout (mst), squeeky, horus and Ingy dot Net.
Bug reports, suggestions and feedbacks were sent by, or general acknowledgement goes to:
Jesse Vincent, David Golden, Andreas Koenig, Jos Boumans, Chris Williams, Adam Kennedy, Audrey Tang, J. Shirley, Chris Prather, Jesse Luehrs, Marcus Ramberg, Shawn M Moore, chocolateboy, Chirs Nehren, Jonathan Rockway, Leon Brocard, Simon Elliott, Ricardo Signes, AEvar Arnfjord Bjarmason, Eric Wilhelm, Florian Ragwitz and xaicron.
This software is provided "as-is," without any express or implied warranty. In no event shall the author be held liable for any damages arising from the use of the software.
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2020-07-04 | perl v5.30.3 |