HiPi
Perl Modules for Raspberry Pi
Version 0.94 - released 28 September 2025

Installation

Using Debian Packages for Raspberry Pi OS

Debian packages are available for the following versions of Raspberry Pi OS

From CPAN

You can always install from CPAN in the normal way.

cpan -i HiPi

If you would like to install dependencies first from the Raspberry Pi OS repository (recommended) rather than have cpan build and install them locally, the list is:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libmodule-build-perl \
                 libdevice-serialport-perl \
                 libfile-copy-recursive-perl \
                 libfile-slurp-perl \
                 libjson-perl \
                 libtry-tiny-perl \
                 libuniversal-require-perl \
                 libio-epoll-perl \
                 libimage-imlib2-perl \
                 libbit-vector-perl \
                 libxml-libxml-perl \
                 libwww-perl \
                 libperl-dev \
                 zlib1g-dev \
                 libi2c-dev

From Source

You can download the latest source and build with the usual

  • perl Build.PL
  • perl Build
  • perl Build test
  • perl Build install