Installing Perl Modules on Ubuntu Linux
I’ve been a perl programmer/scripter/hacker for many years now, and I will frequently use CPAN modules to be able to do the out-of-the ordinary. This small guide is intended to help people easily install these modules.
First, let’s get the CPAN module up to date:
$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
(take defaults to set everything up)
cpan> exit
$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
(answer yes to the question about saving data)
cpan> reload cpan
Then, to install a module, it’s simply:
$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install <name of module>
cpan> exit
One thing that I really enjoy is to be able to watch my DVDs from any computer in the house, or from (almost) any of the TVs, without having to deal with physical media. The way I do this is to “rip” the movies to my media server, and then transcode them to a smaller format. This guide will discuss part one of this — ripping a DVD. I know there are several utilities which will do this for me, but since I have very specific needs, and like things to be as automated as possible, I wrote a script to do this (naturally).
