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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.
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>.
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+If you're looking for the GD::Graph::pie or GD::Graph::linespoints CPAN module on Debian, install libgd-graph-perl.
