libcpanplus-perl software package provides API & CLI access to the CPAN mirrors, 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 libcpanplus-perl
libcpanplus-perl is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libcpanplus-perl package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libcpanplus-perl *
You will get with libcpanplus-perl package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Perl |
| Package | libcpanplus-perl |
| Version | 0.9156-1ubuntu1 |
| Description | API & CLI access to the CPAN mirrors |
| Sub Section | perl |