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Install Perl Modules from CPAN

This document discusses how to install Perl modules from CPAN using either the CPAN module directly or manually downloading and installing modules. It provides examples of using the CPAN module via the command line to install modules like HTML::Template and Email::MIME. It also describes manually downloading, uncompressing, and installing a module by running Makefile.PL, make, make test, and make install.

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Install Perl Modules from CPAN

This document discusses how to install Perl modules from CPAN using either the CPAN module directly or manually downloading and installing modules. It provides examples of using the CPAN module via the command line to install modules like HTML::Template and Email::MIME. It also describes manually downloading, uncompressing, and installing a module by running Makefile.PL, make, make test, and make install.

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Installing Perl (missing) modules from CPAN

There are several ways to get Perl modules from CPAN installed on your Unix-based system.
The simplest way to get Perl modules installed is to use the CPAN module itself. If you are the
system administrator and want to install the module system-wide, you'll need to switch to your
root user. To fire up the CPAN module, just get to your command line and run this:

perl -MCPAN -e shell <Used for installing Perl modules for Bugzilla>

If this is the first time you've run CPAN, it's going to ask you a series of questions - in most
cases the default answer is fine. Once you find yourself staring at the cpan> command prompt,
installing a module is as easy as install MODULE::NAME For example, to install the
HTML::Template module you'd type:

cpan> install HTML::Template <Used for installing Perl modules for Bugzilla>

cpan> install Email::MIME

cpan> install Template <Same module as if Template-Toolkit>

NOTE: The last two modules were missing modules which were installed by CPAN

CPAN should take it from there and you'll wind up with the module installed into your Perl library.
Let's say you're on your system command line and you just want to install a module as quickly
as possible - you can run the Perl CPAN module via command line perl and get it installed in a
single line:

perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTML::Template'


As I mentioned earlier, it's always advisable to download a module yourself, especially if you're
having problems installing with CPAN. If you're on the command line, you can use something
like wget to grab the file. Next you'll want to unzip it with something like:

tar -zxvf HTML-Template-2.8.tar.gz


This will unzip the module into a directory, then you can move in and poke around - look for the
README or INSTALL files. In most cases, installing a module by hand is still pretty easy,
though (although not as easy as CPAN). Once you've switched into the base directory for the
module, you should be able to get it installed by typing:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

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