This is a perl XS module for the use of the libalpm C library. libalpm is used by Archlinux (and other distributions) who use pacman as the package managing program.
In this way, ALPM is a low-level interface to packages and the package managing database system. You can do things like search, upgrade, and install packages using the library.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires the alpm library. This module was developed for libalpm 6.0.1 included with pacman version 3.5.1.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2011 by Justin Davis
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.