Hail Noble Monks,

(This is my first post)

I am an engineer, who has decided to write a program in Perl (in other words I am not an experienced coder). I want the program to work on Mac and Windows, which is why I chose Perl, and I am working on the prototype on my Mac (OS X 10.4.10). I have some Mac-specific questions.

I have got to the point when I need to be able to install modules; DateTime in particular. I have attempted an install in terminal, but I dont think it was successful. Here is what I did... 

Open terminal
Type sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
Input password
Type install DateTime

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When I try to find DateTime in the finder, it appears in... 

usr/local/ActivePerl-5.8/lib/ActiveState-5.8/DateTime.pm

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In an earlier attempt I also attempted to install ActiveState.

Odd thing is, when I type perl -v in terminal, it says I have perl version 5.8.6. I note that ActiveState has perl version 5.8.8

Do I have two versions of perl?

Has DateTime arrived at the right place?

Can I write a 'use DateTime;' type of line in my program (program says cant locate DateTime.pm in @INC)?

Can someone provide a step-by-step guide on how the install should be done?

Thanks in advance

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