This archive contains the distribution CPANPLUS-Dist-Slackware. CPANPLUS-Dist-Slackware is a CPANPLUS plugin that creates Slackware compatible packages from Perl distributions. You can either install the created packages using the API provided by CPANPLUS or manually via "installpkg". $ cpanp CPAN Terminal> i Some::Module --format=CPANPLUS::Dist::Slackware $ cpan2dist --format CPANPLUS::Dist::Slackware Some::Module $ sudo /sbin/installpkg /tmp/perl-Some-Module-1.0-i486-1_CPANPLUS.tgz INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES Slackware Linux 12.2 and Perl 5.10 or better and the sudo command are required. The fakeroot command is highly recommended. You can download a script that builds fakeroot from http://slackbuilds.org/. SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION Type "perldoc CPANPLUS::Dist::Slackware" after installation to see the module usage information. If you want to hack on the source it might be a good idea to grab the latest version with git using the command: git clone git://github.com/voegelas/CPANPLUS-Dist-Slackware.git LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright 2012, 2013 Andreas Voegele This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.