perldoc <module name> individually for any CPAN module that takes my fancy or going through the file system and looking at the directories, I have no idea what modules we have installed. What's the easiest way to just get a big list of every CPAN module installed? From the command line or otherwise.
An alternative method to using upgrade from the default CPAN shell is to use cpanminus and cpan-outdated. These are so easy and nimble to use that I hardly ever go back to CPAN shell. To upgrade all of your modules in one go, the command is:
Using cpan to install App::cpanminus is a bit odd. The normal install instructions involve a bootstrapping procedure of downloading a part of it from cpanmin.us and using that to install the rest. This avoids the configuration of cpan and the creation of a (thereafter) useless .cpan directory.
I want to install perl modules on a shared server on which I do not have root access. How can I do this? They also seem to have an older version of CPAN (it complains about that when running the co...
When I am using cpan to install module, there is a download source which is very unstable and slow, and I might want to install that module on many machines? Is that possible to change the perl module repository to other address, or copy the repos to local disk.
I am using Perl running in user space (not installed via root) and installing modules via the command-line cpan. I would like to know if there is a simple way to remove a module without having to d...
There are multiple installers for cpan modules available; I know of at least CPAN.pm (comes with perl,) CPANPLUS, and cpanminus. What is the difference between the three? What situations call for...
The first time you run cpan from the command line, you are prompted for answers to various questions. How do you automate cpan and install modules non-interactively from the beginning?
