cpanminus software package provides script to get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install cpanminus
cpanminus is installed in your system.
Make ensure the cpanminus package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep cpanminus *
You will get with cpanminus package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Perl |
| Package | cpanminus |
| Version | 1.7042-1 |
| Description | script to get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN |
| Sub Section | perl |