Perl Modules

Introduction to Perl Modules

The Perl module packages add useful objects to the Perl language. Modules utilized by packages throughout BLFS are listed here, along with their dependencies. Installation of the modules shown on this page should be accomplished by installing the dependencies in the order listed. The Perl Module standard build and installation instructions are shown at the bottom of this page.

Archive::Zip-1.37

The Archive::Zip module allows a Perl program to create, manipulate, read, and write Zip archive files. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Archive::Zip-1.37 
    http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/P/PH/PHRED/Archive-Zip-1.37.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: e804985def2c1f0ed640ab4ca6aa85a1

autovivification-0.12

The autovivification module allows you to lexically disable autovivification. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • autovivification-0.12 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/V/VP/VPIT/autovification-0.12.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 871ce0e9b93ef616da7cfa91dbd2772e

Business::ISBN-2.07

The Business::ISBN module is for work with International Standard Book Numbers. This module and its dependency use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Business::ISBN-2.07 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/Business-ISBN-2.07.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: c0049fb576b9fc3b2603bf7e9b3e91af

Business::ISMN-1.11

The Business::ISMN module is for work with International Standard Music Numbers. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Business::ISMN-1.11 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/Business-ISMN-1.11.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: b8228688f2cfa0c629c8d0cbf88421ff

    • Tie::Cycle
      (http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/Tie-Cycle/)

Business::ISSN-0.91

The Business::ISSN module is for work with International Standard Serial Numbers. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Business::ISSN-0.91 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/Business-ISSN-0.91.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: d1f609422d3a0ad5e301ae694d142fe4

Data::Compare-1.24

The Data::Compare module compares two perl data structures. This module and its dependencies use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Data::Compare-1.24 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DC/DCANTRELL/Data-Compare-1.24.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 45d56aa548581d7e4406f665c417d31e

Date::Simple-3.03

Date::Simple provides a simple date object. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Date::Simple-3.03 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/I/IZ/IZUT/Date-Simple-3.03.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 436049dc2c7dfd8423d8bcc807248b31

Encode::EUCJPASCII-0.03

Encode::EUCJPASCII provides an eucJP-open mapping. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Encode-EUCJPASCII-0.03 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NE/NEZUMI/Encode-EUCJPASCII-0.03.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 5daa65f55b7c2050bb0713d9e95f239d

Encode::HanExtra-0.23

The Encode::HanExtra module provides extra sets of Chinese Encodings. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Encode::HanExtra-0.23 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AU/AUDREYT/Encode-HanExtra-0.91.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: e1d3bc32c1c8ee304235a06fbcd5d5a4

Encode::JIS2K-0.02

The Encode::JIS2K module provides JIS X 0212 (aka JIS 2000) Encodings. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Encode::JIS2K-0.02 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DA/DANKOGAI/Encode-JIS2K-0.91.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 00e73ee943fb2f882b00b7b61e4c9db1

File::Slurp-9999.19

The File::Slurp module provides Simple and Efficient Reading/Writing/Modifying of Complete Files. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • File::Slurp-9999.19 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/U/UR/URI/File-Slurp-0.91.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 7d584cd15c4f8b9547765eff8c4ef078

File::Which-1.09

File::Which provides a portable implementation of the 'which' utility. This module and its dependencies use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

HTML::Parser-3.71

The HTML::Parser distribution is a collection of modules that parse and extract information from HTML documents. This module and the dependency modules use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • HTML::Parser-3.71 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.71.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 9128a45893097dfa3bf03301b19c5efe

    • HTML::Tagset
      (http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/HTML-Tagset/)

    • libwww-perl-6.08 (circular; howevever, it can be installed after HTML::Parser as it is only a run-time requirement for the included HTML::HeadParser module)

IPC::Run3-0.048

The IPC::Run3 module is used to run a subprocess with input/ouput redirection. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • IPC-Run3-0.048 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/IPC-Run3-0.91.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 5a8cec571c51a118b265cf6e24e55761

libwww-perl-6.08 (a.k.a. LWP)

The libwww-perl (LWP) collection is a set of Perl modules which provide a simple and consistent application programming interface to the World-Wide Web. The main focus of the library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW clients. The library also contains modules that are of more general use and even classes that help you implement simple HTTP servers. The LWP collection and all its dependency modules use the standard build and installation instructions. The dependencies should be installed in the order listed below. Ensure you install the dependency chain for each module before installing the modules.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

After the LWP installation, if you want HTTPS protocol support, install the following (application and modules):

List::AllUtils-0.08

The List::Allutils module combines List::Util and List::MoreUtils in one bite-sized package. This module and its dependencies use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package will fail (tests, but not for any obvious reason, and at runtime) if the core module List::Util is older than 1.31, as happens with e.g. with perl-5.18.2 from LFS-7.5. To test the version, you can run the following command

strings /usr/lib/perl5/5.*/*/auto/List/Util/Util.so | grep v5 -A 1 | tail -n 1

and if necessary install Scalar::List::Utils (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Scalar-List-Utils/) to get a newer version of that module without updating all of perl.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • List::AllUtils-0.08 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/List-AllUtils-0.08.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 0becef45aaf3556685ab798a132c014e

Log-Log4perl-1.44 (a.k.a. Log::Log4perl)

Log-Log4perl provides a Log4j implementation for perl. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Log-Log4perl-1.44 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHILLI/Log-Log4perl-1.44.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 4065a8b123badf07a3d6f57b48a0aa5c

Net::DNS-0.76

Net::DNS is a DNS resolver implemented in Perl. It can be used to perform nearly any type of DNS query from a Perl script. The Net::DNS module and all its dependencies are installed using the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Net::DNS-0.76 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NL/NLNETLABS/Net-DNS-0.76.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 219dada09d01b7233f82fd1c32ddad39 

    • Digest::HMAC
      (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/Digest-HMAC/) 

    • IO::Socket::INET6
      (http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/IO-Socket-INET6-2.72/) 

    • IO::Socket::INET
      (http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/IO/lib/IO/Socket/INET.pm) (required for IPv6 support)

      • Socket6
        (http://search.cpan.org/~umemoto/Socket6/)

Readonly::XS-1.05

The Readonly::XS module is a companion module for Readonly.pm, to speed up read-only scalar variables. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

Regexp::Common-2013031301

Regexp::Common provides commonly requested regular expressions. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Regexp-Common-2013031301 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AB/ABIGAIL/Regexp-Common-2013031301.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 2b9c335312dcfd9980ff7acbad0e5905

SGMLSpm-1.1

The SGMLSpm module is a Perl library used for parsing the output from James Clark's SGMLS and NSGMLS parsers. This modules uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

Before beginning the build, issue the following command to prevent an error:

chmod -v 644 MYMETA.yml

After installed, as the root user:

ln -sv sgmlspl.pl /usr/bin/sgmlspl
  • SGMLSpm-1.1 
    http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/conglomeration/perl-modules/SGMLSpm-1.1.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 746c74ae969992cedb1a2879b4168090 

Text::BibTeX-0.69

Text::BibTeX provides an interface to read and parse BibTeX files. This module uses the instructions for packages using Build.PL, but except where noted, its dependencies are installed using the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

Unicode::Collate-1.07

Unicode::Collate provides a Unicode collation algorithm. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • Unicode-Collate-1.07 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SA/SADAHIRO/Unicode-Collate-1.07.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 80b9d8452be51a638268fffd129d2480

Unicode::LineBreak-2014.06

Unicode::LineBreak provides a UAX #14 Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm. This module and its dependencies use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

URI-1.64

This module implements the URI class. Objects of this class represent "Uniform Resource Identifier references" as specified in RFC 2396 (and updated by RFC 2732). A Uniform Resource Identifier is a compact string of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource. A Uniform Resource Identifier can be further classified as either a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or a Uniform Resource Name (URN). The distinction between URL and URN does not matter to the URI class interface. A "URI-reference" is a URI that may have additional information attached in the form of a fragment identifier. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • URI-1.64
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/URI-1.64.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 975b2282bc8f0fd72a6dae5cefc33824 

XML::LibXML::Simple-0.94

The XML::LibXML::Simple module is a rewrite of XML::Simple to use the XML::LibXML parser for XML structures,instead of the plain Perl or SAX parsers. This module and all dependency modules use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

XML::LibXSLT-1.92

The XML::LibXSLT module provides an interface to libxslt. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

XML::Simple-2.20

The XML::Simple module is a Perl extension that provides an easy API to read and write XML (especially config files). This module and all dependency modules use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • XML::Simple-2.20 
    http://cpan.org/authors/id/G/GR/GRANTM/XML-Simple-2.20.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: 4d10964e123b76eca36678464daa63cd 

    • XML::SAX
      (http://search.cpan.org/~grantm/XML-SAX/)
      (Note: this package does not support parallel build) 

    • XML::SAX::Expat
      (http://search.cpan.org/~bjoern/XML-SAX-Expat/)
      (Note: this package does not support parallel build) 

    •  XML::LibXML
      (http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/XML-LibXML/)
      (recommended for faster parsing) 

    • Tie::IxHash
      (http://search.cpan.org/~chorny/Tie-IxHash/)
      (optionally used in the test suite) 

XML::Writer-0.625

XML::Writer provides a Perl extension for writing XML documents. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

  • XML::Writer-0.625 
    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JO/JOSEPHW/XML-Writer-0.625.tar.gz 
    MD5 sum: b9c2420c243c6a36ce45a008740fcede

Standard Installation of Perl Modules

Install Perl modules by running the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL &&
make &&
make test

Now, as the root user:

make install
[Note]

Note

When reinstalling a Perl module, sometimes older versions of the module being reinstalled are in other directories specified in @INC. To delete all other versions of the module being reinstalled (not simply older ones) set the UNINST variable:

make install UNINST=1

Installation of Perl Modules which use Build.PL

Install Perl modules which use Build.PL by running the following commands:

perl Build.PL &&
./Build &&
./Build test

Now, as the root user:

./Build install

(Alternate) Auto Installation of Perl Modules.

There is an alternate way of installing the modules using the cpan shell install command. The command automatically downloads the source from the CPAN archive, extracts it, runs the compilation, testing and installation commands mentioned above, and removes the build source tree. You may still need to install dependent library packages before running the automated installation method.

The first time you run cpan, you'll be prompted to enter some information regarding download locations and methods. This information is retained in files located in ~/.cpan. Start the cpan shell by issuing 'cpan' as the root user. Any module may now be installed from the cpan>  prompt with the command:

install <Module::Name>

For additional commands and help, issue 'help' from the cpan>  prompt.

Alternatively, for scripted or non-interactive installations, use the following syntax as the root user to install one or more modules:

cpan -i <Module1::Name> <Module2::Name>

Review the cpan.1 man page for additional parameters you can pass to cpan on the command line.

Last updated on 2014-09-12 22:13:42 -0700