Dear all,

A bit of a question, not really very difficult to you experts, but I'd like to know how the Perl package distributions work.

I have developed a script, which works using the required "include, use, require" packages and modules as necessary, uploaded it and it is in use. Which got me thinking ...

If I developed a script on my home laptop, needed some sort of "unusual" package for a particular reason, found it in CPAN, downloaded and installed it on my laptop, tested it using "localhost" methods and was happy with the result, then went to put the script on my hosting server (resident somewhere in California I believe), how do I know that the "unusual" package is available on that server - or on *any* server if truth be told?

So how do these things work? Does every server have every Perl package ever written residing on it? And what about deprecated pacakges? Or if the unusual::unique module is not on the server, how would anyone request it to be so? And what happens if you use more than one server for that package? And how would I go about seeing if the package/module *is* on the server using some script?

Just curious!

In reply to How do I know if a package is on my server? by gsd4me

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