in reply to Checking and installing a perl module

It already exists and is named cpan.

Alexander

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Re^2: Checking and installing a perl module
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 11, 2009 at 12:06 UTC 
    BEGIN {
eval('use abc::fdj');
if($@) 
    {
        die "You need to install ModuleName...\n" if $@;
        #`perl -MCPAN -e shell | install abc::def`;

        # `install abc::def`;
    }
else
    {
        print "The module is installed\n";
    }


}

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    This will check whether a module is installed....But how to install it from the script if it is not installed??
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[d/l]
      my $module = 'My::Module';

system(cpan => $module)
   and die("system cpan failed: $!/$?\n");

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