cpanminus

cpanminus is a script to get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN and does nothing else. See documentation

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/cpanminus as a dependency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/cpanminus)

Runtime dependency

pkg_deps=(core/cpanminus)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/cpanminus --binlink

will add the following binary to the PATH:

• /bin/cpanm

For example:

$ hab pkg install core/cpanminus --binlink
» Installing core/cpanminus
☁ Determining latest version of core/cpanminus in the 'stable' channel
→ Found newer installed version (core/cpanminus/1.7044/20200819134135) than remote version (core/cpanminus/1.7044/20200404014441)
→ Using core/cpanminus/1.7044/20200819134135
★ Install of core/cpanminus/1.7044/20200819134135 complete with 0 new packages installed.
» Binlinking cpanm from core/cpanminus/1.7044/20200819134135 into /bin
★ Binlinked cpanm from core/cpanminus/1.7044/20200819134135 to /bin/cpanm

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal. For example:

/bin/cpanm --help or cpanm --help

$ cpanm --help
Usage: cpanm [options] Module [...]

Options:
  -v,--verbose              Turns on chatty output
  -q,--quiet                Turns off the most output
  --interactive             Turns on interactive configure (required for Task:: modules)
  -f,--force                force install
  -n,--notest               Do not run unit tests
  --test-only               Run tests only, do not install
  -S,--sudo                 sudo to run install commands