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Written by Gabor Szabo Published on Toggle navigation Perl Maven. Written by Gabor Szabo. Installing Perl modules required by various open source software is a routine tasks for sysadmins. PL Checking if your kit is complete BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. Geo Varghese September 26, , am.

Mayank Bhatnagar December 28, , am. Dolmen December 22, , am. Bill January 18, , pm. Meryem November 14, , am. Richard Babu January 26, , am. Hi, I have a situation where the server is not connected to internet. Thanks Richard. Bonginkosi May 28, , am. This command writes a bundle definition file for all modules installed for the current perl interpreter. With a clever bundle file you can then simply say.

Maintaining a bundle definition file means keeping track of two things: dependencies and interactivity. On the other hand, it's annoying that so many distributions need some interactive configuring. So what you can try to accomplish in your private bundle file is to have the packages that need to be configured early in the file and the gentle ones later, so you can go out for coffee after a few minutes and leave CPAN.

Thanks to Graham Barr for contributing the following paragraphs about the interaction between perl, and various firewall configurations. For further information on firewalls, it is recommended to consult the documentation that comes with the ncftp program.

If you are unable to go through the firewall with a simple Perl setup, it is likely that you can configure ncftp so that it works through your firewall. This is when the firewall machine runs a web server, and to access the outside world, you must do so via that web server. This where the firewall machine runs an ftp server. This kind of firewall will only let you access ftp servers outside the firewall. This is usually done by connecting to the firewall with ftp, then entering a username like "user outside.

One-way visibility means these firewalls try to make themselves invisible to users inside the firewall. An FTP data connection is normally created by sending your IP address to the remote server and then listening for the return connection.

But the remote server will not be able to connect to you because of the firewall. For these types of firewall, FTP connections need to be done in a passive mode. This is what is normally called a 'socksified' perl. With this executable you will be able to connect to servers outside the firewall as if it were not there. This is when the firewall implemented in the kernel via NAT, or networking address translation , it allows you to hide a complete network behind one IP address.

With this firewall no special compiling is needed as you can access hosts directly. Probably you do have the old version installed. This can happen if a module installs itself into a different directory in the INC path than it was previously installed. This is not really a CPAN. Because there are people who have their precise expectations about who may install where in the INC path and who uses which INC array. I want to clean up my mess, and install a new perl along with all modules I have.

How do I go about it? Run the autobundle command for your old perl and optionally rename the resulting bundle file e. When I install bundles or multiple modules with one command there is too much output to keep track of. As of CPAN 1. Another thing you should bear in mind is that the UNINST parameter can be dangerous when you are installing into a private area because you might accidentally remove modules that other people depend on that are not using the private area.

I installed a Bundle and had a couple of fails. When I retried, everything resolved nicely. Can this be fixed to work on first try? The reason for this is that CPAN does not know the dependencies of all modules when it starts out. To decide about the additional items to install, it just uses data found in the META.

An undetected missing piece breaks the process. But it may well be that your Bundle installs some prerequisite later than some depending item and thus your second try is able to resolve everything. Please note, CPAN. For bundles which fail and you need to install often, it is recommended to sort the Bundle definition file manually. In our intranet, we have many modules for internal use.

These are readline issues and can only be fixed by studying readline configuration on your architecture and adjusting the referenced file accordingly. Quite often harmless changes like uppercasing or lowercasing some arguments solves the problem. Internally CPAN. One way of doing so would be.

If other charset support is needed, please file a bug report against CPAN. Maybe we can extend the support or maybe UTF-8 terminals become widely available. Note: this config variable is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of CPAN. By default, CPAN will install the latest non-developer release of a module. If you want to install a dev release, you have to specify the partial path starting with the author id to the tarball you wish to install, like so:. How do I install a module and all its dependencies from the commandline, without being prompted for anything, despite my CPAN configuration or lack thereof?

How do I create a Module::Build based Build. I'm frequently irritated with the CPAN shell's inability to help me select a good mirror. CPAN can now help you select a "good" mirror, based on which ones have the lowest 'ping' round-trip times. From the shell, use the command 'o conf init urllist' and allow CPAN to automatically select mirrors for you.

Beyond that help, the urllist config parameter is yours. You can add and remove sites at will. You should find out which sites have the best up-to-dateness, bandwidth, reliability, etc.

Some people prefer fast downloads, others up-to-dateness, others reliability. You decide which to try in which order. After a few downloads running the hosts command will probably assist you in choosing the best mirror sites. You can make your configuration changes permanent by calling the command o conf commit. Older versions of CPAN. Now there are always random characters appended to these directory names. Why was this done?

The random characters are provided by File::Temp and ensure that each module's individual build directory is unique. This makes running CPAN.

Then you must clean it up yourself. The other possible values, atstart and atexit clean up the build directory when you start or more precisely, after the first extraction into the build directory or exit the CPAN shell, respectively.

If you never start up the CPAN shell, you probably also have to clean up the build directory yourself. The two cpanpm config variables can be set with:. It is getting more and more difficult to get the minimal prerequisites working on older perls.

In the year App::cpanminus was launched as a new approach to a cpan shell with a considerably smaller footprint. Very cool stuff. This software enables you to upgrade software on your computer and so is inherently dangerous because the newly installed software may contain bugs and may alter the way your computer works or even make it unusable. Please consider backing up your data before every upgrade. Before submitting a bug, please make sure that the traditional method of building a Perl module package from a shell by following the installation instructions of that package still works in your environment.

Many people enter the CPAN shell by running the cpan utility program which is installed in the same directory as perl itself. So if you have this directory in your PATH variable or some equivalent in your operating system then typing cpan in a console window will work for you as well. Above that the utility provides several commandline shortcuts. For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide. Andreas J. All methods provided are accessible in a programmer style and in an interactive shell style.

The most common uses of the interactive modes are Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules There are corresponding one-letter commands a , b , d , and m for each of the four categories and another, i for any of the mentioned four.

Any make or test is run unconditionally. The notest pragma skips the test part in the build process. Signals CPAN. Return value: path to the written file. Note that the list is not sorted. Integrating local directories Note: this feature is still in alpha state and may change in future versions of CPAN. PL perl Build.

PL go and get prerequisites make. PLs or Build. PLs after this many seconds inactivity. Set to 0 to disable timeouts. PL and a Build. Default is 15 secs. Set to 0 to disable. By default it uses Cwd::cwd, but if for some reason this doesn't work on your system, configure alternatives according to the following table: cwd Calls Cwd::cwd getcwd Calls Cwd::getcwd fastcwd Calls Cwd::fastcwd getdcwd Calls Cwd::getdcwd backtickcwd Calls the external command cwd.

Or since the advent of Module::Build we should talk about two mantras: perl Makefile. PL make. Blueprint The following example contains all supported keywords and structures with the exception of eexpect which can be used instead of expect. The valid keys in this hash are as follows: comment [scalar] A comment cpanconfig [hash] Temporarily override assorted CPAN. Processing Instructions args [array] Arguments to be added to the command line commandline A full commandline to run via system.

Programming Examples This enables the programmer to do operations that combine functionalities that are available in the shell. CPAN::Distribution::install Changes to the directory where the distribution has been unpacked and runs the external command make install there.

Note that install gives no meaningful return value. See uptodate. It suppresses duplicates in the column in CPAN file such that distributions with many upgradeable modules are listed only once. The recent command downloads a list of recent uploads to CPAN and displays them slowly.

Note : This whole command currently is just a hack and will probably change in future versions of CPAN. XS modules with 'force' in effect. The primary purpose of this command is to finish a network installation. Imagine you have a common source tree for two different architectures. You decide to do a completely independent fresh installation. You start on one architecture with the help of a Bundle file produced earlier.

So you invoke CPAN's recompile on the second architecture and you're done. Another popular use for recompile is to act as a rescue in case your perl breaks binary compatibility. The force pragma reruns the tests and repeats every step that might have failed before. You should never do this with your normal account and better have a dedicated well separated and secured machine to do this.

The smoke command takes the list of recent uploads to CPAN as provided by the recent command and tests them all. The upgrade command first runs an r command with the given arguments and then installs the newest versions of all modules that were listed by that.

Although it may be considered internal, the class hierarchy does matter for both users and programmer. Classical single polymorphism is in effect. A metaclass object registers all objects of all kinds and indexes them with a string. The strings referencing objects have a separated namespace well, not completely separated :. Modules know their associated Distribution objects. They always refer to the most recent official release.

Developers may mark their releases as unstable development versions by inserting an underscore into the module version number which will also be reflected in the distribution name when you run 'make dist' , so the really hottest and newest distribution is not always the default.

But if you would like to install version 1. Distribution objects are normally distributions from the CPAN, but there is a slightly degenerate case for Distribution objects, too, of projects held on the local disk. These distribution objects have the same name as the local directory and end with a dot. A dot by itself is also allowed for the current directory at the time CPAN. All actions such as make , test , and install are applied directly to that directory.

This gives the command cpan. It figures out which of the two mantras is appropriate, fetches and installs all prerequisites, takes care of them recursively, and finally finishes the installation of the module in the current directory, be it a CPAN module or not. The typical usage case is for private modules or working copies of projects from remote repositories on the local disk.

So piping to pager or redirecting output into a file works somewhat as in a normal shell, with the stipulation that you must type extra spaces. At run time, each listed plugin is instantiated as a singleton object by running the equivalent of this pseudo code:. The generated singletons are kept around from instantiation until the end of the shell session. While the cpan shell is running, it checks all activated plugins at each of the 8 reference points listed above and runs the respective method if it is implemented for that object.

When the CPAN module is used for the first time, a configuration dialogue tries to determine a couple of site specific options. The mkmyconfig command writes this file for you. Displays the current value s for this config variable.

Without KEY, displays all subcommands and config variables. If KEY starts and ends with a slash, the string in between is treated as a regular expression and only keys matching this regexp are displayed. The empty string can be specified as usual in shells, with '' or "". If a config variable name ends with list , it is a list. Finally, any other list of arguments is taken as a new list value for the KEY variable discarding the previous value.

The configuration dialog can be started any time later again by issuing the command o conf init in the CPAN shell. You can set and query each of these options interactively in the cpan shell with the o conf or the o conf init command as specified below. Runs an interactive configuration dialog for matching variables. Without argument runs the dialog over all supported config variables. Note: this method of setting config variables often provides more explanation about the functioning of a variable than the manpage.

By default it uses Cwd::cwd, but if for some reason this doesn't work on your system, configure alternatives according to the following table:. We do a little guessing if your URL is not compliant, but if you have problems with file URLs, please try the correct format.

The urllist parameter of the configuration table contains a list of URLs used for downloading. This feature is disabled for index files. It will later check for each module to see whether there is a local copy of the most recent version. Another peculiarity of urllist is that the site that we could successfully fetch the last file from automatically gets a preference token and is tried as the first site for the next request.

So if you add a new site at runtime it may happen that the previously preferred site will be tried another time. This means that if you want to disallow a site for the next transfer, it must be explicitly removed from urllist. If you have YAML. You can view the statistics with the hosts command or inspect them directly by looking into the FTPstats.

Since CPAN. It is only built and tested, and then kept in the list of tested but uninstalled modules. If set to yes , they allow the testing and the installation of the current distro and otherwise have no effect. If it finds something there that belongs, according to the index, to a different dist, it aborts the current build. If a to-be-installed module would downgrade an already installed module, the current build is aborted.

So the proper arrangement in such a case is to write a second distroprefs document for the distro that goto points to and overrule the cpanconfig there. Or since the advent of Module::Build we should talk about two mantras:. But some modules cannot be built with this mantra. They try to get some extra data from the user via the environment, extra arguments, or interactively--thus disturbing the installation of large bundles like Phalanx or modules with many dependencies like Plagger.

The distroprefs system of CPAN. The YAML files themselves must have the. The containing directory can be specified in CPAN.

Every YAML file may contain arbitrary documents according to the YAML specification, and every document is treated as an entity that can specify the treatment of a single distribution. Filenames can be picked arbitrarily; CPAN. These files are expected to contain one or more hashrefs. The YAML shell would produce these with the command.

For Storable files the rule is that they must be constructed such that Storable::retrieve file returns an array reference and the array elements represent one distropref object each. The conversion from YAML would look like so:. If you prefer Storable over Data::Dumper, remember to pull out a Storable version that writes an older format than all the other Storable versions that will need to read them.

The following example contains all supported keywords and structures with the exception of eexpect which can be used instead of expect. Every YAML document represents a single hash reference. The valid keys in this hash are as follows:. Please report as a bug when you need another one supported. The current implementation merges the specified dependencies with those declared by the package maintainer. In a future implementation this may be changed to override the original declaration.

Still needs coordination with installer software and currently works only for META. Use with caution. The canonical name of a delegate distribution to install instead. Useful when a new version, although it tests OK itself, breaks something else or a developer release or a fork is already uploaded that is better than the last released version. Processing instructions for the make install or.

See below under Processing Instructions. Processing instructions for the make or. A hashref with one or more of the keys distribution , module , perl , perlconfig , and env that specify whether a document is targeted at a specific CPAN distribution or installation.

The corresponding values are interpreted as regular expressions. The distribution related one will be matched against the canonical distribution name, e. The module related one will be matched against all modules contained in the distribution until one module matches. If more than one restriction of module , distribution , etc. If so, the hashref represented by the YAML document is returned as the preference structure for the current distribution.