This chapter has explained what Perl modules are and how to use Webmin to install new modules into your system. It has also covered the viewing of documentation and other information for existing modules and explained how to remove those that you no longer need.
Days before refreshing CPAN module list | This field determines the number of days that Webmin will wait before recommending that the CPAN module list be downloaded again, as explained in Section 27.3 “Installing a Perl Module”. It is a good idea to refresh occasionally as the URLs it contains may become out-of-date when a new version of a Perl module is released. |
CPAN perl modules list | These fields determine where Webmin downloads the list of CPAN modules from, and where it downloads actual module filesfrom. The defaults will work perfectly well, but because there are many CPAN mirror sites around the world you may want to change them to use a site closer to you. If so, the CPAN perl modules list field must be set to the URL of the 02packages.details.txt.gz file on the mirror server. |
CPAN modules base URL | The CPAN modules base URL field must contain the URL of a directory under which module files are categorized by author, which will typically end with authors/id. |
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