Setting up Perl can be a pain if you need more than the handful of modules that are available with your package manager. And how will you check? And how will you check whether something you need is only available from CPAN but some of its dependencies are available from your package manager. Aaaargh!
For a while, I considered setting up perlbrew, and switching to cpanm. But then I realized how much time I was loosing as it stands. If you want to know why `HTTP::BrowserDetect` doesn’t install, you need to read the error messages and install `YAML` and `Class::Exception` and all the dependencies of `Test::Most` and... and... and... it goes on for a long time when all you want is this:
cpan CPAN cpan Term::ANSIColor cpan HTTP::BrowserDetect
The Oddmuse Debian page says:
apt-get install perl-modules \
libwww-perl libxml-rss-perl \
libmime-base64-perl \
diffutils
This is my current cpan config. The mirrors were determined by cpan itself. They’re not the most obvious ones. Weird.
$CPAN::Config options from /home/alex/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm:
commit [Commit changes to disk]
defaults [Reload defaults from disk]
help [Short help about 'o conf' usage]
init [Interactive setting of all options]
applypatch [/usr/bin/applypatch]
auto_commit [1]
build_cache [100]
build_dir [/home/alex/.cpan/build]
build_dir_reuse [0]
build_requires_install_policy [yes]
bzip2 [/bin/bzip2]
cache_metadata [1]
check_sigs [0]
colorize_debug [black on_cyan]
colorize_output [1]
colorize_print [bold blue on_white]
colorize_warn [bold red on_white]
commandnumber_in_prompt [1]
commands_quote undef
connect_to_internet_ok [1]
cpan_home [/home/alex/.cpan]
curl undef
dontload_hash undef
dontload_list undef
ftp undef
ftp_passive [1]
ftp_proxy []
ftpstats_period undef
ftpstats_size undef
getcwd [cwd]
gpg [/usr/bin/gpg]
gzip [/bin/gzip]
halt_on_failure [0]
histfile [/home/alex/.cpan/histfile]
histsize [100]
http_proxy []
inactivity_timeout [0]
index_expire [1]
inhibit_startup_message [0]
keep_source_where [/home/alex/.cpan/sources]
load_module_verbosity [none]
lynx undef
make [/usr/bin/make]
make_arg []
make_install_arg []
make_install_make_command [sudo make]
makepl_arg [INSTALLDIRS=site]
mbuild_arg []
mbuild_install_arg []
mbuild_install_build_command [sudo ./Build]
mbuildpl_arg [--installdirs site]
ncftp undef
ncftpget undef
no_proxy []
pager [/usr/bin/less]
password undef
patch [/usr/bin/patch]
patches_dir undef
perl5lib_verbosity [none]
plugin_list undef
prefer_external_tar [1]
prefer_installer [MB]
prefs_dir [/home/alex/.cpan/prefs]
prerequisites_policy [follow]
proxy_pass undef
proxy_user undef
randomize_urllist undef
recommends_policy undef
scan_cache [atstart]
shell [/bin/bash]
show_unparsable_versions [0]
show_upload_date [0]
show_zero_versions [0]
suggests_policy undef
tar [/bin/tar]
tar_verbosity [none]
term_is_latin [0]
term_ornaments [1]
test_report [0]
trust_test_report_history [0]
unzip [/usr/bin/unzip]
urllist
0 [***]
1 [***]
2 [***]
use_prompt_default undef
use_sqlite [1]
username undef
version_timeout [15]
wait_list undef
wget [/usr/bin/wget]
yaml_load_code [0]
yaml_module [YAML]