title: Linux perl module management
body: <p>Is there any programs other than <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/CPAN" rel="nofollow">CPAN</a> to install/compile perl modules and install them?</p>
  
  <p>Mainly I am looking for something like the Activestate PPM, the closest I could find was <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/ppm" rel="nofollow">PPM</a> on <a href="http://search.cpan.org" rel="nofollow">CPAN</a> but when I try to install it fails for some "<em>unknown</em>" reason. I am sure if I dug through the output I could find why but it mostly greek to me about make errors.</p>
  
  <p>Anyhow is there anything? It would be nice if it had a GTK front end on account of I use GNOME on Ubuntu and it would be nice for playing with new modules.</p>
  
  <p>What I really want is the ability to install and uninstall modules by command line atleast.</p>
  
  <p>Also, is it possible to script a perl module install? For example when someone installs my .DEB package is there a way for it to retrieve the source code from <a href="http://search.cpan.org" rel="nofollow">CPAN</a> (using <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/CPAN" rel="nofollow">CPAN</a> if need be) and build it for the system?</p>