[NCLUG] CPAN

Joseph DiVerdi diverdi at xtrsystems.com
Wed Jul 16 12:24:38 MDT 2008


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| On Jul 16, 2008, at 11:40 AM, grant at amadensor.com wrote:
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|> I have a PERL question, specifically about CPAN, that I can't seem to 
|> find the answer to on Google or CPAN.org.
|>
|> Installing modules via CPAN is easy, and I have no trouble doing so, 
|> however, how do I get updates to things that are already installed?
|>
|> What is the CPAN equivalent of apt-get update;;apt-get upgrade?

I find running cpan interactively from the command line most useful. There is a simple "help" command which indicates that "r" provides install recommendations for all installed modules. That list can be used to (manually) make any desired updates using the "install" install command. There is no separate "upgrade" command (to my knowledge).

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Joseph
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