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Newer page: version 5 Last edited on Sunday, October 31, 2004 1:18:23 am by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
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 A vast collection of [Free] [Perl] software and documentation. If you're a [Perl] programmer, you're the kid and [CPAN] is the candy store. See [the CPAN main page | http://www.cpan.org] for more info and lots of sweets. 
  
-Quickest way to use CPAN to get modules is like this:  
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- perl -MCPAN -e "shell"  
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- However, many of the more popular modules are in [Debian] and undoubtedly the other distributions as well, so you're better off using the package management if you can. In Debian at least, look for packages named lib<something>-perl. For example, the libdbd-pg-perl provides the DBD::Pg module from CPAN. ( RedHat merely calls this package DBD-Pg.)  
+The quickest way to use [ CPAN] to get modules is <tt> perl -MCPAN -eshell</tt>. However, many of the more popular modules are available in [Debian] and undoubtedly the other distributions as well, so you're better off using the package management if you can. In [ Debian] at least, look for packages named <tt> lib<something>-perl</tt> . For example, the <tt> libdbd-pg-perl</tt> provides the [ DBD::Pg | http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-Pg/] module from [ CPAN] . RedHat merely calls this package <tt> DBD-Pg</tt> .