The shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell
Common commands
install Module::Name uninstall Module::Name upgrade
To reinitialize CPAN's configuration:
o conf init
The Perl which installs with pkg-get was compiled with the Forte compiler which most people don't have; if you add modules with CPAN which need to be compiled.
Following directions here:
Or you can manually make with something like:
perl -cc=gcc Makefile.pl
Perl modules we need: