Programmer's Cookbook

This utility allows you to automate the installation of a set of Perl modules. List the modules in the @modules array and run the script. It uses the CPAN module to download and install the modules, as well as requisite modules.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CPAN;

my @modules = qw(
   HTML::Template
   XML::EasyObj
);

# install needed modules
for my $mod (@modules) {
   print "Checking module '$mod' ...\n";
   my $obj = CPAN::Shell->expand('Module',$mod);
   $obj->install;
}