cpan-listchanges command not found

Introduction

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

cpan-listchanges: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cpan-listchanges: command not found

Solutions to cpan-listchanges: command not found

How To Fix cpan-listchanges: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cpan-listchanges is provided by cpan-listchanges package.

cpan-listchanges is:

cpan-listchanges is a command-line application that compares the Changes file between arbitrary versions of a package. It is similar to apt-listchanges, and by default, it compares the currently installed version with the latest one available on CPAN.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cpan-listchanges

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

You can also use apt command to install cpan-listchanges.

sudo apt -y install cpan-listchanges

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

sudo aptitude install cpan-listchanges

Summary

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