Clay Irving suggested a short CPAN.pm demostration:
Index: perlfaq8.pod =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq8.pod,v retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -d -r1.7 perlfaq8.pod --- perlfaq8.pod 18 Apr 2002 14:23:15 -0000 1.7 +++ perlfaq8.pod 14 May 2002 16:10:18 -0000 @@ -968,9 +968,17 @@ =head2 How do I install a module from CPAN? The easiest way is to have a module also named CPAN do it for you. -This module comes with perl version 5.004 and later. To manually install -the CPAN module, or any well-behaved CPAN module for that matter, follow -these steps: +This module comes with perl version 5.004 and later. + + $ perl -MCPAN -e shell + + cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.59_54) + ReadLine support enabled + + cpan> install Some::Module + +To manually install the CPAN module, or any well-behaved CPAN module +for that matter, follow these steps: =over 4
