cpan-sysdeps - report system dependencies for CPAN modules
cpan-sysdeps --cpanmod Foo::Bar cpan-sysdeps --cpandist Foo-Bar-1.23.tar.gz
Option to select a CPAN distribution. At least one of these two is mandatory:
--cpandist=Dist-Name
--cpanmod=Dist::Name
Options to simulate another environment:
--os=operatingsystem
Change the operating system name. Values are the same as in perl's $^O.
$^O
--osvers=version
Change the operating system version. On FreeBSD systems this is the output of uname -r.
uname -r
--linuxdistro=distid
For --os=linux only: change the distribution id. This is a lowercase name like debian or fedora.
--os=linux
debian
fedora
--linuxdistrocodename=codename
For --os=linux only: change the distribution version code name. This is a name like wheezy or jessie.
wheezy
jessie
--linuxdistroversion=version
For --os=linux only: change the distribution version.
Other options:
--uninstalled
Show only the packages which are currently uninstalled. Of course, this makes only sense if the environment is not simulated to something else.
If there happen to be alternatives in the package specifications and all of these are not installed, then these will be reduced to the first package in the specification.
--dryrun
Show the package installation commands which would run.
--run
Actually run the package installation commands.
--debug
Enable the debug option of CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps.
debug
There's no real mapping from CPAN module names to distribution names and vice versa. Currently it's best to stick to just module names, as currently the mapping file only uses module names. A real solution would have to use CPAN.pm or a suitable web service.
Currently both --linuxdistrocodename and --linuxdistroversion have to be set; there's no automatic conversion between those two. Currently the mapping file uses only codenames, so it may be sufficient to specify only this one.
--linuxdistrocodename
--linuxdistroversion
It's not possible to specify a custom mapping like in CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps.
cpan-sysdeps may be used to utilize CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps::Mapping outside of CPAN.pm. For example on a Debian-like system:
cpan-sysdeps
apt-get install $(cpan-sysdeps --uninstalled --cpanmod Foo::Bar)
Or everywhere:
cpan-sysdeps --cpanmod Foo::Bar --run
Slaven Rezic
CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps.
To install CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.