cpan-outdated command not found

Introduction

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

cpan-outdated: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cpan-outdated: command not found

Solutions to cpan-outdated: command not found

How To Fix cpan-outdated: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cpan-outdated is provided by cpanoutdated package.

cpanoutdated is:

cpanoutdated prints the list of outdated CPAN modules in your machine. It provides the same feature as ‘CPAN::Shell->r’, but cpan-outdated is much faster and uses less memory. This script can be integrated with the cpanm command.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cpanoutdated

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

You can also use apt command to install cpanoutdated.

sudo apt -y install cpanoutdated

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

sudo aptitude install cpanoutdated

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix cpan-outdated command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.