How To Install carton on Debian 10

Learn how to install carton on Debian 10 with this tutorial. carton is Perl module dependency manager (aka Bundler for Perl)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install carton on Debian 10.

What is carton

carton is:

carton is a command line tool to track the Perl module dependencies for your Perl application. The required dependencies are managed through a file named cpanfile and tracked through the carton.lock file. It makes deployments easier and allows other developers of your application to have the exact same versions of the modules.

There are three methods to install carton on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install carton Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install carton using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install carton

Install carton Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install carton using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install carton

Install carton 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 carton using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install carton

How To Uninstall carton on Debian 10

To uninstall only the carton package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove carton

Uninstall carton And Its Dependencies

To uninstall carton and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove carton

Remove carton Configurations and Data

To remove carton configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge carton

Remove carton configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove carton configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge carton

Dependencies

carton have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install carton package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.