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
    To install the Imager module, you should not use the Module:: prefix. Simply use: 
    cpanm Imager

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