NAME
cpanx - A CPAN downloader script
SYNOPSIS
cpanx [<options>] [<module>]OPTIONS
-h displays this help text
-l look at module's contents in a shell
-i displays info about the module
-f displays info about what files would be installed
-p display perldoc for the module
-u uninstalls module
-n not interactive
-S do not use sudo
-r reinstall even if module is installed
-T do not run tests
-d dependencies only
-m=<url> sets the cpan mirror. default www.cpan.org
-M choose a cpan mirror
-c clean module cache
-v display version
-I=<loc> sets install base path. e.g. /usr/local
-L=<loc> sets library install path. e.g. /Library/Perl/5.18
-B=<loc> sets the binary install path. e.g. ~/bin
-SC=<loc> sets the script install path. e.g. ~/scripts
-M1=<loc> sets the man1 install path e.g. /usr/share/man/man1
-M3=<loc> sets the man3 install path e.g. /usr/share/man/man3
<module> name of the module you want to install
e.g. DBD::mysql or DBD-mysql-4.046.tar.gz or ./DESCRIPTION
This program will download, display, and install modules (and their dependencies) from CPAN. A public repository of user contributed perl code.
This script is different to scripts like cpan and cpanm in that it will show what it will do before it does anything. This is important when a module has a lot of dependencies.
Just run something like "cpanx Module", it will download what it needs, then display the dependencies in the order that they will need to be installed to install the module.
Use the -i option, it will just show the information, and not ask if you actually want to install it.
Use the -n option to set the script to not be interactive. It will install without asking first.
Use the -S option to disable sudo during "make install".
If the module is up to date, you can use the -r option to reinstall.
If the tests aren't passing and you want to install anyway, use the -T option.
Use the -d option to only install the dependencies, not the module itself.
Use the -l option to open a shell in the module's directory and then you can look around.
Use the -p option to open perldoc for the module.
The -f option can be used to display what files will be installed. Use along with the -I, -L, -B, -SC, -M1, -M3 or the PERL_MM_OPT or PERL_MB_OPT environment variables, to make sure you set the right settings before you install.
You can uninstall the module with -u. It will show you what files will be removed before actually removing them.
Set the CPAN mirror with the -m option. By default it uses http://www.cpan.org.
Find the best CPAN mirror by running the command with -M. It will ping all CPAN mirrors and show you the 10 servers with the best time and let you choose which one you want.
Modules are cached and reused between calls, so you can look at the contents of the module in a shell, then get info about the install, then install the module and the module only downloads from cpan once. The cache is stored in ~/.cpanx.
This script has no dependencies. It uses the curl program to download.
This script is self contained. It's runnable if all you have is the one file.
METACPAN
https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Cpanx
AUTHOR
Jacob Gelbman <gelbman@gmail.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2018 by Jacob Gelbman
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.18.2 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.