Downloading a module

LloydRice has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to install a model called "Imager". The cpanm site provides much info on the package, including that the package has recently been upgraded. I downloaded a tar.gz and also unzipped that to get the .tar. However, I first tried loading it directly from cpanm:

cpanm Module::Imager

| Finding Module::Imager on cpanmetadb failed.
| Finding Module::Imager () on mirror http://www.cpan.org failed.
| Couldn't find module or a distribution Module::Imager
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Next, I tried installing from the local copy I had downloaded: The online writeup at Strawberry says that I should try this:

perl Makefile.pl --libpath=c:\downloads\perl\imager\Imager=1.012.tar.g
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Perl says it cannot find an executable called "Makefile.pl". I looked around and found the following ...

\Strawberry\perl\vendor\lib\Mojolicious\Command\generate\makefile.pm
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Is this the same thing? Should I try to run that directly? What am I doing wrong?

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Re: Downloading a module
by toolic (Bishop) on Aug 30, 2020 at 12:00 UTC

Imager

Module::

cpanm Imager
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Re: Downloading a module
by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Aug 30, 2020 at 12:23 UTC

Hello LloydRice,

As toolic says, to install Imager just issue the command:

cpanm Imager
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from a command prompt. But if you’ve already downloaded it and want to install from the local download, cd to the directory containing the download and enter:

cpanm .
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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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