DESCRIPTION The CPAN module automates or at least simplifies the make and install of perl modules and extensions. It includes some primitive searching capabilities and knows how to use LWP, …

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The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currently has 225,221 Perl modules in 46,194 distributions, written by 14,642 authors, mirrored on 1 servers. The archive has been online since …

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Specifies the base URL for the CPAN mirror to use, such as http://cpan.cpantesters.org/ (you can omit the trailing slash). You can specify multiple mirror URLs by repeating the command line option.

cpanf is a command line tool to find, index and download CPAN modules from fresh mirrors. It would be useful if you want to install modules before it's mirrored to the mirrors near you which usually takes a …

The list contains modules distribution files on CPAN for modules that are not included in the perl standard distribution but are included in the current release of Perl Module List.

MetaCPAN provides an alternate mirror for CPAN, which is also a BackPAN (it includes deleted releases). It can be used if there are issues with the primary mirror, or you want to access older …

This script provides a command interface (not a shell) to CPAN. At the moment it uses CPAN.pm to do the work, but it is not a one-shot command runner for CPAN.pm.

Can I automatically redirect links pointing at search.cpan.org to metacpan.org? As announced by the Perl NOC, all traffic will be redirected to from search.cpan.org to MetaCPAN.org as of 25th of June …