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<pre wrap="">Just wanted some people's thoughts on what the 'best' way to install
perl modules on linux is: CPAN or your distro's package manager.
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Building a debian package from CPAN is usually as simple as:
dh-make-perl --build --cpan Example::Module
You can even change --build to --install if you want to speed the process.
If you don't have dh-make-perl, you can use:
apt-get install dh-make-perl
to install it.
In this way, you can use pre-built packages for most of your modules, and
dh-make-perl packages to fill in the gaps.
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Likewise, this applies for Gentoo as well:<br>
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g-cpan -i <CPAN module><br>
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will look for an existing gentoo package of the module; if not found,
it will fetch the CPAN version and create a gentoo package; then
install the package into the dependency tree.<br>
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Mathew<br>
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