mymeta-cpanfile command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mymeta-cpanfile: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mymeta-cpanfile: command not found

Solutions to mymeta-cpanfile: command not found

How To Fix mymeta-cpanfile: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mymeta-cpanfile is provided by libmodule-cpanfile-perl package.

libmodule-cpanfile-perl is:

Module::CPANfile is a tool to handle cpanfile format to load application specific dependencies, not just for CPAN distributions.

cpanfile describes CPAN dependencies required to execute associated Perl code.

Place the cpanfile in the root of the directory containing the associated code. For instance, in a Catalyst application, place the cpanfile in the same directory as myapp.conf.

Tools supporting cpanfile format (e.g. cpanm and carton) will automatically detect the file and install dependencies for the code to run.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install libmodule-cpanfile-perl

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install libmodule-cpanfile-perl.

sudo apt -y install libmodule-cpanfile-perl

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install libmodule-cpanfile-perl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mymeta-cpanfile command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.