cpan
easily interact with CPAN from the command line
Synopsis
# with arguments and no switches, installs specified modules
cpan module_name [ module_name ... ]
# with switches, installs modules with extra behavior
cpan [-cfgimt] module_name [ module_name ... ]
# with just the dot, install from the distribution in the
# current directory
cpan .
# without arguments, starts CPAN.pm shell
cpan
# dump the configuration
cpan -J
# load a different configuration to install Module::Foo
cpan -j some/other/file Module::Foo
# without arguments, but some switches
cpan [-ahrvACDlLO]
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
examples
source
cpan_list="./cpan_modules.list";
cpan_file=$(which
cpan);
cpan_term_args=$*;
for i in `cat
$cpan_list`
for i in `cat
$cpan_list`
do
cat <<EOF
==============
>> cpan $i
==============
\$ cpan $cpan_term_args
$i;
EOF
source
CPAN install to many directories
Either local::lib
or Perlbrew
(or
both) should be able to simplify things for
you. Even more importantly, don't use CPAN
to
install modules; use cpanm
.
My preference is simply to use Perlbrew to install non-system
Perl interpreters in my $HOME
directory. After that,
each interpreter is self-contained and cpanm
takes
care of modules. Honestly, I never need to think about where
modules end up. It just works.
source
Installing a CPAN module using a remote compiler
Compile elsewhere, and install the result. CentOS of the same version
as RHEL should work fine for this.
source
how to get Geo::Coder::Many with cpan?
CPAN.pm: Going to build K/KA/KAORU/Geo-Coder-Many-0.42.tar.gz
Can't locate Geo/Coder/Many/Google.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2
/usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14
/usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at
/usr/share/perl/5.14/Module/Load.pm line 27. Can't locate ...
Geo::Coder::Many::Google is a plugin that comes bundled with
Geo::Coder::Many to translate between Geo::Coder::Google and
Geo::Coder::Many. As you can see from this URL:
https://metacpan.org/source/KAORU/Geo-Coder-Many-0.42/lib/Geo/Coder/Many/Google.pm
(Note that Geo/Coder/Many/Google.pm belongs to the Geo-Coder-Many
0.42 package.)
This implies that during the 'make test' your environment was not
correctly configured to include the packages' own modules in the
@INC
or $PERL5LIB
during the test.
Which is weird because that should definitely be the default.
To go a bit more general:
Geo::Coder::Many attempts to dynamically generated its dependency
list based on what Geo::Coder::* modules you have installed. It's
worth noting that Geo::Coder::Google and Geo::Coder::Googlev3 are
different modules - specifically Geo::Coder::Google is used for
version 2 of Google's Geocoder API.
This means that the first part of your question is not entirely
relevant. It's not failing on Google v3 support, it's failing on
Google v2 support, which you must also have installed.
I suggest trying to:
sudo cpan App::cpanminus
sudo cpanm --sudo --prompt Geo::Coder::Many
Then, assuming it fails again, use the prompt option to "Inspect"
the build directory and try running 'make test' or './Build test'
yourself... or alternatively use 'prove --blib' to test specific
.t files that are relevant to your needs. If things work to your
satisfaction you can drop out of the Inspect with 'exit' and then
force the install through.
source
Install XML::Parser
Found a solution with this apt-get command :
sudo apt-get install expat
sudo apt-get install libexpat1-dev
Thanks @daxlerod for your comment.
source
Install perl module with dependencies
This is unfortunately the tell-tale sign of a memory
leakage. This command
ps --sort -rss -eo rss,pid,command | head
will tell you who the culprit is. Solving a problem like this is
way above my pay grade, since it can basically be done only the
program/system developers. You may try to contact them to report
the problem.
Edit:
Don't you have the curl command wrong? Should it not be
sudo curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo App::cpanminus
instead?
description
This script
provides a command interface (not a shell) to
CPAN . At the moment it uses
CPAN .pm to do the work, but it is not a
one-shot command runner for CPAN .pm.
Options
-a
Creates a CPAN .pm autobundle with
CPAN::Shell->autobundle.
-A module [ module ...
]
Shows the primary maintainers
for the specified modules.
-c module
Runs a ’make clean’
in the specified module’s directories.
-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.
-f
Force the specified action, when it normally would have
failed. Use this to install a module even if its tests fail.
When you use this option, -i is not optional for
installing a module when you need to force it:
% cpan -f -i Module::Foo
-F
Turn off CPAN
.pm’s attempts to lock anything. You should be careful
with this since you might end up with multiple scripts
trying to muck in the same directory. This isn’t so
much of a concern if you’re loading a special config
with "-j", and that config sets up
its own work directories.
-g module [ module ...
]
Downloads to the current
directory the latest distribution of the module.
-G module [ module ...
]
UNIMPLEMENTED
Download to the
current directory the latest distribution of the modules,
unpack each distribution, and create a git repository for
each distribution.
If you want
this feature, check out Yanick Champoux’s
"Git::CPAN::Patch" distribution.
-h
Print a help message and exit. When you specify
"-h", it ignores all of the other
options and arguments.
-i
Install the specified modules.
-j Config.pm
Load the file that has the
CPAN configuration data. This should have the
same format as the standard CPAN/Config.pm file,
which defines $CPAN::Config as an anonymous
hash.
-J
Dump the configuration in the same format that
CPAN .pm uses. This is useful for checking
the configuration as well as using the dump as a starting
point for a new, custom configuration.
-L author [ author ...
]
List the modules by the
specified authors.
-m
Make the specified modules.
-O
Show the out-of-date modules.
-t
Run a ’make test’ on the specified
modules.
-r
Recompiles dynamically loaded modules with
CPAN::Shell->recompile.
-v
Print the script version and CPAN .pm
version then exit.
Examples
# print a help message
cpan -h
# print the version numbers
cpan -v
# create an autobundle
cpan -a
# recompile modules
cpan -r
# install modules ( sole -i is optional )
cpan -i Netscape::Booksmarks Business::ISBN
# force install modules ( must use -i )
cpan -fi CGI::Minimal URI
copyright
Copyright (c) 2001-2009, brian d foy, All Rights Reserved.
You may redistribute this under the same terms as Perl itself.
credits
Japheth Cleaver added the bits to allow a forced install (-f).
Jim Brandt suggest and provided the initial implementation for
the up-to-date and Changes features.
Adam Kennedy pointed out that exit() causes problems on
Windows where this script ends up with a .bat extension
exit values
The script exits with zero if it thinks that everything worked,
or a positive number if it thinks that something failed. Note,
however, that in some cases it has to divine a failure by the
output of things it does not control. For now, the exit codes are
vague:
1 An unknown error
2 The was an external problem
4 There was an internal problem with the script
8 A module failed to install
source availability
This code is in Github:
git://github.com/briandfoy/cpan_script.git
to do
* one shot configuration values from the command line
bugs
* none
noted
see also
Most behaviour,
including environment variables and configuration, comes
directly from CPAN .pm.
author
brian d foy,
"<bdfoy[:at:]cpan[:dot:]org>"