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The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
Chris Nandor

Perl News
The Perl Journal, Winter 1998
 

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)

The CPAN is the world's distributed, replicated repository of Perl utilities. Unless noted otherwise, you can find everything in this column on the CPAN. Visit Tom Christiansen's multiplexer to be redirected to a CPAN site near you:

You'll be able to find the modules under the author's name, at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-authors.

Jon Orwant't http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/INSTALL.html has instructions on how to build modules on all major operating systems, and CPAN/CPAN.html lists all of the modules and scripts on the CPAN.

You can also use Andreas Koenig's CPAN module to automatically install modules. Once you've installed it, perl -MCPAN -e 'install("modulename")' will automatically download, build, and install the module for you. If you'd like to contribute your module to the CPAN, good for you!

Read CPAN/modules/04pause.html for details.