cpan2dist - The CPANPLUS distribution creator
### create a debian package from 'Some::Module', and all ### its prerequisites cpan2dist -f CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb Some::Module ### skip tests, enable verbose, create ports packages of ### Some::Module and Other::Module and its prerequisites cpan2dist -S -v -f CPANPLUS::Dist::Ports Some::Module Other::Module ### show usage message, also lists available formats cpan2dist -h ### set a certain format to be your default, using the default shell: CPAN Terminal> s conf dist_type CPANPLUS::Dist::SomeFormat; s save;
This script will create distributions of CPAN modules of the format you specify, including its prerequisites. These packages can then be installed using the corresponding package manager for the format.
CPAN
Note, you can also do this interactively from the default shell, CPANPLUS::Shell::Default. See the CPANPLUS::Dist documentation, as well as the documentation of your format of choice for any format specific documentation.
CPANPLUS::Shell::Default
CPANPLUS::Dist
CPANPLUS::Dist, CPANPLUS::Module, CPANPLUS::Shell::Default, cpanp
cpanp
This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.
The CPAN++ interface (of which this module is a part of) is copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install CPANPLUS, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm CPANPLUS
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install CPANPLUS
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.