Hi,
You would normally use the 'patch' utility (which comes with recent versions of Strawberry perl - and is otherwise found readily). If you have Strawberry Perl try entering: 
patch --help

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Often it's just a matter of running 'patch ScanDeps.pm ScanDeps.patch' - which should suffice in this instance.

For a small patch, you can always do it by hand if you like. The patch on the page you linked to could be applied by hand by replacing (in ScanDeps.pm): 
# 5.8.x
push @files, (map "$dir/$_.pl", qw( Exact Canonical ));

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with 
# 5.8.x and higher
push @files, (map "$dir/$_.pl", qw( Exact Canonical Heavy ));

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Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: Installing a patch for a CPAN Module by syphilis
in thread Installing a patch for a CPAN Module by saintex

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