in reply to Installing a newer version of a module without replacing the existing one.

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/path/to/directory/where/you/want/it/to/go

Or you could look through perlmodinstall (I'd look on my own system w/ "perldoc perlmodinstall")

As a last resort, you could do a search on this on this site before posting the question, it's been asked before =)

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