Perl

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perl is cool, you probably have it already installed

tried to update it, which didn't work (said there was no make package, even though I installed a few)

 apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libc6-dev
 perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Bundle::CPAN"'
 select 'no' to configure prompt

basically your best best is to try to find the module you want directly from apt-get, so in my case I needed

 apt-cache search libgd (or whatever you're looking for)
 apt-get install libgd-perl

the naming sorta follows this convention, which is irritating to remember.