From the CLI:

would

install the dependencies as well?

Depends on what you set on CPANs first run, when it prompts for configuration
data. Find your Config.pm and grep it for prerequisites_policy ....



Cheers,
Tink

You can also just set it to follow by executing the following within the shell.

HTH

Forrest

sweet, thanks

It's also worth mentioning that some distributions (like Gentoo) use Perl as the core-language of their maintenance system. To help protect that system, they ship slightly-unconventional defaults for fundamental things like the order of the @INC list.

You might therefore find yourself in a situation that is directly analogous to "installing Perl stuff on a shared-hosting system where you are not allowed to supersede the system defaults but must instead make a 'per-user' type of installation." Perl does support this, through facilities like PERL5LIB, PREFIX, and various CPAN configuration-settings. In fact, it does it quite well. But, it's not entirely obvious.

What those vendors are intentionally trying to ensure is, in fact, what you can thereby achieve, namely: you can set up your Perl any way that you like, without being able to inadvertantly "torch" the Perl configuration upon which the distro's maintenance-software depends.