I run Debian stable and have ventured into using CPAN to install more up to date modules. You should certianly be able to get a working system out of the Debian repository.

You can configure the command cpan to chase down dependencies but be aware this may lead to trouble. At some point after I'd used cpan to update some modules, an apt-get upgrade failed because it picked up the Errno.pm in my /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 instead of the Errno in /usr/share/perl/5.8.8.

I think the preferred method within Debian is to download the Debian packages and not to use cpan. These have a naming convention of lib<modulename>-perl e.g. libcgi-perl and libcgi-formbuilder-perl. You could use apt-cache search to hunt for a specific package name.

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