I see a few problems that can be corrected:

• no documentation. How do i use this? Where do i start? You provide no clues for the end user.
• no standardization. Try using Module::Starter to create the framework for your distribution.
• custom installation with no uninstall. You could utilize Makefile.pl instead:

  EXE_FILES => ['colorapt/capt-get','colorapt/capt-search','colorapt/cap
  +t-cache']
  [download]

  This delegates installation to something like cpanm, which also provides the means to uninstall. (See ExtUtils::MakeMaker for more.)
• finally, is this really the best way to accomplish the task? I would think one module and one Perl script (no shell scripts) would suffice. Have the end user pipe the output of apt-get into your script instead of doing that for them.

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

Perl5 and Perl6 are two different languages, even if they are closely related. IMO, learning both would not be a loss.

I agree with this. I toyed around with Perl6 a couple of years ago, and really liked it. Prior to that, I had never imagined being able to call a method on a literal before :)

Since then, part of my job consists of writing Python. Perl6 is a lot like Python, in that everything is an object, and has methods.

-stevieb

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You can't comment enough.

I like to define what the regex is looking for specifically

s/  \+/ /g; # Remove multiple spaces
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OLD s/\s+/\s/g;
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NEW s/\s+//g;
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When I try that, I get "Unrecognized escape \s passed through at ./get.pl line 36."

AFAIK, \s has been introduced around version 5.10, so it might help if you could upgrade your perl (or, if it's the "system perl", use a mechanism like perlbrew…)
Big Oops! Sorry, apparently I was not yet awake enough when I wrote this