%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Perl Modules The Perl module packages (also referred to as Distributions, because each can contain multiple modules) add useful objects to the Perl language. The packages listed on this page are required or recommended for other packages in the book. If they have dependent modules, those are either on this page or else on the next page (). In many cases, only the required or recommended dependencies are listed - there might be other modules which allow more tests to be run, but omitting them will still allow the tests to PASS. For a few modules, the BLFS editors have determined that other modules still listed as prerequisites are not required, and omitted them. Where an alphabetically-earlier dependency of the same module pulls in a dependency, it is not mentioned for the later dependencies of the same module. You should build the listed dependencies in order. It is generally worth running the tests for perl modules, they often can show problems such as missing dependencies which are required to use the module. Here, the editors have attempted to separate those dependencies which are only required for running testsuites, but they will not be mentioned for a module where one of its dependencies uses that module for its own testsuite. That is to say, if you intend to run the testsuites, please run them for each dependency of the module. It is possible to automatically install the current versions of a module and all missing or too-old dependencies recommended by upstream using CPAN. See at the end of this page. Most of these modules only install files below /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.xx.y and those will not be documented. One or two install programs (mostly, perl scripts), or a library, into /usr/bin/ or /usr/lib/ and these are documented. User Notes: