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The Perl SDK provides a generic set of wrappers so you can make API calls easily.

It should be treated as alpha/experimental. Currently, limitations include:
* Verbose syntax.
* No native Keep client.
* No CPAN package.

h3. Installation

h4. Option 1: Install from distribution packages

First, "add the appropriate package repository for your distribution":{{ site.baseurl }}/install/install-manual-prerequisites.html#repos.

On Debian-based systems:

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<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">sudo apt-get install libjson-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libwww-perl libipc-system-simple-perl libarvados-perl</code>
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On Red Hat-based systems:

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<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">sudo yum install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker perl-JSON perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-WWW-Curl libarvados-perl</code>
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h4. Option 2: Install from source

First, install dependencies from your distribution.  Refer to the package lists above, but don't install @libarvados-perl@.

Then run the following:

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<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">git clone https://github.com/curoverse/arvados.git</span>
~$ <span class="userinput">cd arvados/sdk/perl</span>
~$ <span class="userinput">perl Makefile.PL</span>
~$ <span class="userinput">sudo make install</span>
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h3. Test installation

If the SDK is installed, @perl -MArvados -e ''@ should produce no errors.

If your @ARVADOS_API_HOST@ and @ARVADOS_API_TOKEN@ environment variables are set up correctly (see "api-tokens":{{site.baseurl}}/user/reference/api-tokens.html for details), the following test script should work:

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<pre>~$ <code class="userinput">perl &lt;&lt;'EOF'
use Arvados;
my $arv = Arvados-&gt;new('apiVersion' => 'v1');
my $me = $arv-&gt;{'users'}-&gt;{'current'}-&gt;execute;
print ("arvados.v1.users.current.full_name = '", $me-&gt;{'full_name'}, "'\n");
EOF</code>
arvados.v1.users.current.full_name = 'Your Name'
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