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Update: This is perhaps a long winded approach, but I think it helps to understand the process in full.

Download the module, extract the archive, then:

wget https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Attachment/1576496/841876/0001-Fix-a-p
+ad-problem-with-Perl-5.21.4-on-threaded-build.patch
marto@shemp ~/Devel-CallParser-0.002 $ patch -p1 < 0001-Fix-a-pad-prob
+lem-with-Perl-5.21.4-on-threaded-build.patch
patching file lib/Devel/CallParser.xs
patching file t/pad2.t

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Notice that the patch has created the new file you're looking for (you can see everything the patch does by reading it and following the logic). Then:

marto@shemp ~/Devel-CallParser-0.002 $ cpanm .
--> Working on .
Configuring Devel-CallParser-0.002 ... OK
Building and testing Devel-CallParser-0.002 ... OK
Successfully installed Devel-CallParser-0.002
1 distribution installed

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Re^2: How to patch this module?
by ultranerds (Hermit) on Mar 28, 2017 at 09:39 UTC
    Ah you star - that did it. I missed the -p1 part from the query. I still get this though: 
    patch -p1 < 0001-Fix-a-pad-problem-with-Perl-5.21.4-on-threaded-build.
+patch
can't find file to patch at input line 19
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|From ba92f4cba247c91d100e05f2b83dd093055e462b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 200
+1
|From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
|Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 18:53:08 +0200
|Subject: [PATCH] Fix a pad problem with Perl >= 5.21.4 on threaded bu
+ilds
|
|This broke at least the Kavorka and Moops distributions.
|
|Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/808826
|---
| lib/Devel/CallParser.xs | 10 +++++++---
| t/pad2.t                | 15 +++++++++++++++
| 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
| create mode 100644 t/pad2.t
|
|diff --git a/lib/Devel/CallParser.xs b/lib/Devel/CallParser.xs
|index 6643739..847742c 100644
|--- a/lib/Devel/CallParser.xs
|+++ b/lib/Devel/CallParser.xs
--------------------------
File to patch:

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    UPDATE: Never mind, me being dumb! I was in the wrong directory, so it couldn't find the files ;)

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      Can you show me the path you're doing this from, and an ls within the current working directory?

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        YAY! I was finally able to install the module I needed: 

        root@mail:~# cpanm Kavorka
--> Working on Kavorka
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/T/TO/TOBYINK/Kavorka-0.037.tar
+.gz ... OK
Configuring Kavorka-0.037 ... OK
Building and testing Kavorka-0.037 ... OK
Successfully installed Kavorka-0.037
1 distribution installed

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        ...and.... 
        root@mail:~# cpanm Net::Stripe
--> Working on Net::Stripe
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RC/RCONOVER/Net-Stripe-0.30.
+tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Net-Stripe-0.30 ... OK
Building and testing Net-Stripe-0.30 ... OK
Successfully installed Net-Stripe-0.30
1 distribution installed

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        That was so painful! Thanks to everyone for walking me through how to sort it. I was loosing hair over that. Also good to learn how to apply patches, as I've never had to do that before

        Thanks again!
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