CPAN

CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, a large collection of Perl software and documentation.

Installation

Ubuntu 22.04 ship with CPAN installed by default.

To compile and install package from CPAN you may also need to install build tools:

sudo apt install -y build-essential

Usage

To check CPAN version:

cpan -v

To install a package:

cpan install <package>