[SHELL PROMPT ]$ mkdir site_perl

##</code><code>##

[SHELL PROMPT ]$ cd ~ 

# check for shell configuration files
[SHELL PROMPT ]$ ls -al 

(for sh, bash, ksh, or zsh shells - example used: bash)
[SHELL PROMPT ]$ pico ./.bashrc 
[PICO PROMPT ]$ export PERL5LIB=$HOME/path/to/my/site_perl

(for csh or tcsh shells - example used tcsh)
[SHELL PROMPT ]$ pico ./.cshrc 
[PICO PROMPT ]$ set PERL5LIB=/path/to/my/site_perl

##</code><code>##

[SHELL PROMPT ]$ echo $PERL5LIB

##</code><code>##

[SHELL PROMPT ]$ cd /path/to/your/site_perl
[SHELL PROMPT ]$ ftp ftp.CPAN.org/pub/CPAN
login: anonymous
ftp> get /path/to/yourmodule.tar.gz  [space]/path/to/your/site_perl/yourmodule.tar.gz
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.

##</code><code>##

[SHELL PROMPT ]$ gzip -d yourmodule.tar.gz 

##</code><code>##

[SHELL PROMPT ]$ tar -xvf yourmodule.tar 

##</code><code>##

[SHELL PROMPT ]$ perl Makefile.PL LIB=/path/to/my/site_perl \
INSTALLMAN1DIR=/path/to/my/man/man1 \
INSTALLMAN3DIR=/path/to/my/man/man3 

[SHELL PROMPT ]$ make 

[SHELL PROMPT ]$ make test 

##</code><code>##

[SHELL PROMPT ]$ make install

##</code><code>##

 
use lib '/path/to/my/site_perl';

##</code><code>##

 
BEGIN { unshift(@INC, "/path/to/my/site_perl") }

##</code><code>##

[SHELL PROMPT ]$ perl -MCPAN -e shell

##</code><code>##

cpan> cpan_home: /path/to/my/site_perl/ANY_NAME_YOU_WANT 

cpan> makepl_arg: LIB=/path/to/my/site_perl 

you can check these values in the CPAN shell at any time by typing: 

cpan> o conf 

##</code><code>##

cpan> o conf
CPAN::Config options and /Users/Sol-Invictus/site-perl/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm:
    commit             Commit changes to disk
    defaults           Reload defaults from disk
    init               Interactive setting of all options

    build_cache        10
    build_dir          /Users/Sol-Invictus/site-perl/.cpan/build
    cache_metadata     1
    cpan_home          /Users/Sol-Invictus/site-perl/.cpan
    dontload_hash     
    ftp                /usr/bin/ftp
    ftp_proxy          
    getcwd             cwd
    gzip               /usr/bin/gzip
    histfile           /Users/Sol-Invictus/site-perl/.cpan/histfile
    histsize           100
    http_proxy         
    inactivity_timeout 0
    index_expire       1
    inhibit_startup_message 0
    keep_source_where  /Users/Sol-Invictus/site-perl/.cpan/sources
    lynx               
    make               /usr/bin/make
    make_arg           
    make_install_arg   
    makepl_arg         
    ncftp              
    ncftpget           
    no_proxy           
    pager              /usr/bin/less
    prerequisites_policy ask
    scan_cache         atstart
    shell              /bin/tcsh
    tar                /usr/bin/tar
    term_is_latin      1
    unzip              /usr/bin/unzip
    urllist           
        ftp://ftp.ayamura.org/pub/CPAN/
        ftp://ftp.cpan.jp/CPAN/
        ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/pub/lang/CPAN/
        ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/
        ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/CPAN/
        ftp://ftp.meisei-u.ac.jp/pub/CPAN/
        ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/
        ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/CPAN
        ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/Perl/
        ftp://mirror.Mazic.org/pub/CPAN
        ftp://cpan.topend.com.au/pub/CPAN/
        ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/CPAN/
        ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/perl/CPAN/
        ftp://cpan.in.freeos.com/pub/CPAN/
        ftp://ftp.cbn.net.id/mirror/CPAN
        ftp://ftp.mweb.co.id/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
    wait_list         
        wait://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de:1404
    wget               


##</code><code>##

cpan> o conf init

##</code><code>##

[SHELL PROMPT]$ perldoc CPAN 

##</code><code>##

[SHELL PROMPT]$ man CPAN 

##</code><code>##

[SHELL PROMPT ]$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install MODULE_YOU_WANT

##</code><code>##

cpan> ?