Yes, CGI.pm does come bundled with Perl.

1. You can find out if a file exists on your system using:

locate -b CGI.pm

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(Note that locate doesn't really search the file system - it searches an index of the file system, which is usually configured to be updated on a nightly basis, so results can be up to 24 hours out of date.)

To know if a module is installed in a place where Perl can find it, use:

perl -e1 -MCGI

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This will print nothing if CGI can be loaded; and print an error if it cannot.

There's also a module called V which is pretty handy. It allows you to type this:

perl -MV=CGI

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... and it will tell you what version number of CGI.pm you have installed.

2. App::cpanminus is a pretty good CPAN client. And Fedora probably makes a large number of Perl modules available via their own packaging system (yum if I recall correctly).

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

In reply to Re: CGI.pm on Fedora 16 by tobyink
in thread CGI.pm on Fedora 16 by Anonymous Monk

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