Executing an if else shell command from perl

I have never run into this scenario before so I could use a little help. I am trying to issue an if/else statement from a shell command but within perl. I’ve tried system and exec with no success. Here’s a sample of the code

if ($os eq 'Ubuntu'){
    system('if ! dpkg -l curl &> /dev/null; then apt-get install curl -y; fi');
    foreach my $mod (keys %deb){
        eval "use $mod";
        if($@){
            system("apt-get install $deb{$mod} -y");
            eval "use $mod";
        }
    }
}

If I run the command if ! dpkg -l curl &> /dev/null; then apt-get install curl -y; fi in shell it works fine but executing it from perl is skips the if part and goes right on to installing it.

Answer

The if works perfectly fine.

$ perl -e'system("if ! true ; then echo ok ; fi")'

$ perl -e'system("if ! false ; then echo ok ; fi")'
ok

There is a problem, though. What you posted is a bash command, but system(EXPR) is short for system('/bin/sh', '-c', EXPR). Simply replacing

system(EXPR)

with

system('/bin/bash', '-c', EXPR)

should do the trick.