Do you prefer to manage all software in your operating system's native package format?
CPANPLUS::Dist::Slackware is a CPANPLUS plugin that creates Slackware compatible packages from Perl distributions. You can either install the created packages using the API provided by CPANPLUS, or manually via installpkg.
SYNOPSIS
### from the cpanp interactive shell
$ cpanp
CPAN Terminal> i Some::Module --format=CPANPLUS::Dist::Slackware
### using the command-line tool
$ cpan2dist --format CPANPLUS::Dist::Slackware Some::Module
$ sudo /sbin/installpkg /tmp/perl-Some-Module-1.0-i486-1_CPANPLUS.tgz
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Requirements:
· Perl
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Minor changes. For example, the Padre plugin now makes sure that update-desktop-database and gtk-update-icon-cache are run.