Hack The Sec-Leading Resource Of Linux Tutorial: CPAN

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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><u>Install Perl Modules Manually and Using CPAN command</u></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Open Sans;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a repository of over 250,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 39,000 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 12,000 contributors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Open Sans;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The modules can be downloaded from metacpan.org as well as mirrored sites worldwide.CPAN can denote either the archive network itself, or the Perl program that acts as an interface to the network and as an automated software installer (somewhat like a package manager). Most software on CPAN is free and open source software.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Open Sans;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Installing <b>Perl </b>modules using <b>CPAN </b>is a better solution, as it resolves all the dependencies automatically. In this article, let us review how to install Perl modules on Linux using both manual and CPAN method.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Open Sans;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">When a Perl module is not installed, application will display the following error message. In this example, XML::Parser Perl module is missing.</span></span></div>
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<pre style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: Consolas, Monaco, Menlo, Courier, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow: auto; padding: 13px; tab-size: 4; word-wrap: normal;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Can't locate</strong> XML/parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 .)</pre>
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Install Perl Modules Manually</div>
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<b><u>Download Perl module</u></b></div>
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Go to CPAN <a href="http://search.cpan.org/">Search website</a> and search for the module that you wish to download. In this example, let us search, download and install XML::Parser Perl module. I have downloaded the XML-Parser-2.36.tar.gz to /home/download</div>
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<pre style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: Consolas, Monaco, Menlo, Courier, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow: auto; padding: 13px; tab-size: 4; word-wrap: normal;"># cd /home/download
# gzip -d XML-Parser-2.36.tar.gz
# tar xvf XML-Parser-2.36.tar
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<pre style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: Consolas, Monaco, Menlo, Courier, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow: auto; padding: 13px; tab-size: 4; word-wrap: normal;"># <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">perl Makefile.PL
</strong>Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for XML::Parser::Expat
Writing Makefile for XML::Parser
# <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">make</strong>
# <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">make test</strong></pre>
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This is very simple for one module with no dependencies. Typically, Perl modules will be dependent on several other modules. Chasing all these dependencies one-by-one can be very painful and annoying task. I recommend the CPAN method of installation as shown below. Use the manual method only if the server is not connected to the Internet.</div>
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Install Perl Modules using CPAN automatically</div>
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Verify whether CPAN is already installed</div>
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To install Perl modules using CPAN, make sure the cpan command is working. You should have the CPAN perl module installed before you can install any other Perl modules using CPAN. In this example, CPAN module is not installed.</div>
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-bash: cpan: command not found

# <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">perl -MCPAN -e shell</strong>
Can't locate CPAN.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.</pre>
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<b>Install the CPAN module using yum</b></div>
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<pre style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: Consolas, Monaco, Menlo, Courier, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow: auto; padding: 13px; tab-size: 4; word-wrap: normal;"># <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">yum install perl-CPAN</strong></pre>
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Output of yum install perl-CPAN command:</div>
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<pre style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: Consolas, Monaco, Menlo, Courier, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 26px; overflow: auto; padding: 13px; tab-size: 4; word-wrap: normal;">Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
updates-newkey                       | 2.3 kB     00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2                   | 2.4 MB     00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments

Resolving Dependencies
Transaction Summary
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Install      5 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 1.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/5): perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.18-31.fc9.i386.rpm     |  30 kB     00:00
(2/5): perl-Test-Harness-2.64-31.fc9.i386.rpm         |  70 kB     00:00
(3/5): perl-CPAN-1.9205-31.fc9.i386.rpm               | 217 kB     00:00
(4/5): perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.36-31.fc9.i386.rpm   | 284 kB     00:00
(5/5): perl-devel-5.10.0-31.fc9.i386.rpm              | 408 kB     00:00
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Installing     : perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS                             [1/5]
Installing     : perl-devel                                        [2/5]
Installing     : perl-Test-Harness                                 [3/5]
Installing     : perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker                           [4/5]
Installing     : perl-CPAN                                         [5/5]

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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Installed: perl-CPAN.i386 0:1.9205-31.fc9
</strong>Dependency Installed:
  perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker.i386 0:6.36-31.fc9
  perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS.i386 1:2.18-31.fc9
  perl-Test-Harness.i386 0:2.64-31.fc9
  perl-devel.i386 4:5.10.0-31.fc9
<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Complete!</strong></pre>
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<b><u>Configure cpan the first time</u></b></div>
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The first time when you execute cpan, you should set some configuration parameters as shown below. I have shown only the important configuration parameters below. Accept all the default values by pressing enter.</div>
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Note: Make sure to execute “<b>o conf commit</b>” in the cpan prompt after the configuration to save the settings.</div>
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Sorry, we have to rerun the configuration dialog for CPAN.pm due
to some missing parameters...

CPAN build and cache directory? <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">[/root/.cpan]
</strong>Download target directory? [/root/.cpan/sources]
Directory where the build process takes place? [/root/.cpan/build]

Always commit changes to config variables to disk? <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">[no]</strong>
Cache size for build directory (in MB)? [100]
Let the index expire after how many days? [1]

Perform cache scanning (atstart or never)? <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">[atstart]</strong>
Cache metadata (yes/no)? [yes]
Policy on building prerequisites (follow, ask or ignore)? [ask]

Parameters for the 'perl Makefile.PL' command? <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">[]</strong>
Parameters for the 'perl Build.PL' command? []

Your ftp_proxy? <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">[]</strong>
Your http_proxy? []
Your no_proxy? []
Is it OK to try to connect to the Internet? [yes]

First, pick a nearby continent and country by typing in the number(s)
(1) Africa
(2) Asia
(3) Central America
(4) Europe
(5) North America
(6) Oceania
(7) South America
<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Select your continent</strong> (or several nearby continents) [] 5

(1) Bahamas
(2) Canada
(3) Mexico
(4) United States
<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Select your country</strong> (or several nearby countries) [] 4

(2) ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/CPAN/
(3) ftp://cpan-du.viaverio.com/pub/CPAN/
(4) ftp://cpan-sj.viaverio.com/pub/CPAN/
(5) ftp://cpan.calvin.edu/pub/CPAN
(6) ftp://cpan.cs.utah.edu/pub/CPAN/
e.g. '1 4 5' or '7 1-4 8' <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">[] 2-16</strong>

cpan[1]> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">o conf commit</strong>
commit: wrote '/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/CPAN/Config.pm'

cpan[2]> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">quit</strong>
No history written (no histfile specified).
Lockfile removed.</pre>
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<b><u>Install Perl Modules using CPAN</u></b></div>
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You can use one of the following method to install a Perl module using cpan.</div>
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# <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">cpan</strong>
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9205)
ReadLine support available (maybe install Bundle::CPAN or Bundle::CPANxxl?)

cpan[1]> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">install "Email::Reply";</strong></pre>
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<span style="font-family: Open Sans;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Output of above perl install command:</span></span></div>
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Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:02:52 GMT

Running install for module 'Email::Reply'
Running make for R/RJ/RJBS/Email-Reply-1.202.tar.gz
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v2.036)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9711)
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/Email-Reply-1.202.tar.gz

CPAN: checksum security checks disabled because Digest::SHA not installed.
Please consider installing the Digest::SHA module.

CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.008)
Email-Reply-1.202/
Email-Reply-1.202/Changes
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.18)
Warning: prerequisite Email::Abstract 2.01 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Email::MIME::Creator 1.41 not found.
Writing Makefile for Email::Reply
---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during ----
----       RJBS/Email-Reply-1.202.tar.gz      ----
<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Email::Abstract [requires]
Email::MIME::Creator [requires]
</strong>Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue

of modules we are processing right now? [yes]
<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">[Note: CPAN automatically detects that Email::Abstract
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Fetching with LWP:
ftp://server/pub/CPAN/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/Email-Abstract-2.134.tar.gz
make -- OK
make install  -- OK

Fetching with LWP:
ftp://server/pub/CPAN/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/Email-MIME-Creator-1.454.tar.gz
make -- OK
make install  -- OK

Warning: prerequisite Email::Simple::Creator 1.4 not found.
Writing Makefile for Email::MIME::Creator
<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Email::Simple::Creator [requires]
</strong>Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue
of modules we are processing right now? [yes]
<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">[Note: CPAN automatically detects that Simple::Creator is required]</span>

Fetching with LWP:
ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/Simple-Creator.tar.gz
make -- OK
make install  -- OK

Fetching with LWP:
CPAN.pm: Going to build R/RJ/RJBS/Email-Reply-1.202.tar.gz

make -- OK
make install  -- OK</pre>
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