You can set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to specify your
Java 2 SDK installation directory. For example, if you are using
the CPAN installer you can do:
JAVA_HOME=/path/to/your/j2sdk/installation cpan Inline::Java
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$sudo cpan Inline::Java
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$ sudo JAVA_HOME=/path/to/your/j2sdk/installation cpan Inline::Java