diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ea38ffa524e..4cc64ba5ca9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Note: Can be used with `oxsecurity/megalinter@beta` in your GitHub Action mega-l
   - Free disk space earlier in the process to avoid failure during docker build
   - Set flavors-stats.json as a generated file in .gitattributes ([#3023](https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter/pull/3023))
   - Update and fix our ChatOps automations to only run on pull request comments, by @echoix in [#3034](https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter/pull/3034)
+  - Use App::cpm to install perlcritic faster, and clean `.perl-cpm` cache, by @echoix in [#3036](https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter/pull/3036) 
   - Add failure message in ChatOps build-command and Slash dispatcher, by @echoix in [#3037](https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter/pull/3037)
 
 - Linter versions upgrades
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 6c4adaddd48..21ea00283ac 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -626,7 +626,9 @@ RUN wget --quiet https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/download/pmd_releases%2F${P
 # Managed with COPY --link --from=checkmake /checkmake /usr/bin/checkmake
 
 # perlcritic installation
-    && curl --retry 5 --retry-delay 5 -sL https://cpanmin.us/ | perl - -nq --no-wget Perl::Critic
+    && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skaji/cpm/main/cpm | perl - install -g --show-build-log-on-failure --without-build --without-test --without-runtime Perl::Critic \
+    && rm -rf /root/.perl-cpm
+
 
 # phpcs installation
 RUN --mount=type=secret,id=GITHUB_TOKEN GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN="$(cat /run/secrets/GITHUB_TOKEN)" && export GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN && phive --no-progress install phpcs -g --trust-gpg-keys 31C7E470E2138192
diff --git a/linters/perl_perlcritic/Dockerfile b/linters/perl_perlcritic/Dockerfile
index 8612f02653d..d15ba2a4c9b 100644
--- a/linters/perl_perlcritic/Dockerfile
+++ b/linters/perl_perlcritic/Dockerfile
@@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ ENV PATH="/node-deps/node_modules/.bin:${PATH}" \
 #############################################################################################
 #OTHER__START
 # perlcritic installation
-RUN curl --retry 5 --retry-delay 5 -sL https://cpanmin.us/ | perl - -nq --no-wget Perl::Critic
+RUN curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skaji/cpm/main/cpm | perl - install -g --show-build-log-on-failure --without-build --without-test --without-runtime Perl::Critic \
+    && rm -rf /root/.perl-cpm
+
 
 #OTHER__END
 
diff --git a/megalinter/descriptors/perl.megalinter-descriptor.yml b/megalinter/descriptors/perl.megalinter-descriptor.yml
index 027f3dba693..4db3acc5ef1 100644
--- a/megalinter/descriptors/perl.megalinter-descriptor.yml
+++ b/megalinter/descriptors/perl.megalinter-descriptor.yml
@@ -31,4 +31,6 @@ linters:
       - "perlcritic myfile.pl"
     install:
       dockerfile:
-        - RUN curl --retry 5 --retry-delay 5 -sL https://cpanmin.us/ | perl - -nq --no-wget Perl::Critic
+        - |
+          RUN curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skaji/cpm/main/cpm | perl - install -g --show-build-log-on-failure --without-build --without-test --without-runtime Perl::Critic \
+              && rm -rf /root/.perl-cpm