How do I run asciiquarium in out-of-the-box ubuntu?

Question

Asciiquarium is a perl script that requires Term::Animation. What are the appropriate hoops to jump through to get this cpan module into an ubuntu perl install?

apt-cache search animation |grep -i perl

doesn't seem to find anything like libterm-animation-perl to just apt-get blindly.

Answer 1

Perl modules that are not provided as debian package must be installed manually. One way of doing that: download the Term-Animation-XX.tar.gz source (XX is a version number), unpack it and do

cd Term-Animation-XX
perl Makefile.PL && make && make test
sudo make install

or you can use the automatic Perl module installer:

sudo cpan Term::Animation

During the first run, the installer will ask you a few questions that usually require just hitting Enter to choose the default option.