To start with, you have to make sure your perl installation supports the modules that the scripts uses.
I'm doing this from Windows but in theory it should be the same for Mac.

- Open a terminal session.
- Run:
ppm list
- This will show you all of the modules that are installed.
- If any of:
HTML::TagCloud
HTML::Entities
HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI

are missing use the command:

ppm install <module_name_from_above>

to install the module.

- HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI doesn't seem to be available via ppm - I guess because it is still developmental. I had to download direct from cpan and manually install.*

Then, when all installed quite simply:
perl -w tagcloud.pl notes.txt


* Manual HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI install.
- Download from: http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Server-Simple/lib/HTTP/Server/Simple/CGI.pm
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install


In reply to Re^3: A Tagcloud For Cory Doctorow by gnuchu
in thread A Tagcloud For Cory Doctorow by McD

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