What's the easiest way to install a missing Perl module?

Question

I get this error:

Can\'t locate Foo.pm in @INC

Is there an easier way to install it than downloading, untarring, making, etc?

Answer 1

On ubuntu most perl modules are already packaged, so installing is much faster than most other systems which have to compile.

To install Foo::Bar at a commmand prompt for example usually you just do:

sudo apt-get install libfoo-bar-perl

Sadly not all modules follow that naming convention.