How To Install libmetacpan-client-perl on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmetacpan-client-perl
on Debian 11.
What is libmetacpan-client-perl
libmetacpan-client-perl is:
MetaCPAN::Client is a hopefully-complete API-compliant client to MetaCPAN (https://metacpan.org) with DWIM capabilities, to make your life easier.
This module has three purposes:
- Provide 100% of the MetaCPAN API
- Be lightweight, to allow flexible usage
- DWIM
There are three methods to install libmetacpan-client-perl
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmetacpan-client-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmetacpan-client-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmetacpan-client-perl
Install libmetacpan-client-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmetacpan-client-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmetacpan-client-perl
Install libmetacpan-client-perl Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libmetacpan-client-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmetacpan-client-perl
How To Uninstall libmetacpan-client-perl on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libmetacpan-client-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmetacpan-client-perl
Uninstall libmetacpan-client-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmetacpan-client-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmetacpan-client-perl
Remove libmetacpan-client-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libmetacpan-client-perl
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmetacpan-client-perl
Remove libmetacpan-client-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmetacpan-client-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmetacpan-client-perl
Dependencies
libmetacpan-client-perl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmetacpan-client-perl
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.