copy perl from one box to another

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am migrating an existing perl web application and need to install xml-writer and xml-writer-string, I am trying to copy over these modules and am not sure how to get these modules onto the new server, due to security I cannot use ppm to install them will copying the folders from c:\perl\site\lib\auto\xml and also c:\perl\site\lib\xml will that do it?

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Re: copy perl from one box to another by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 11, 2010 at 17:18 UTC
If the two machines use the same version of Perl, and both machines are of the same architecture, and you copy the files into same-named path, it should work fine. Don't forget to install any external library your modules require. You could also download the ppd and install it without going to the internet.	[reply]
Re^2: copy perl from one box to another by learn2earn (Acolyte) on Jan 11, 2010 at 18:29 UTC
would the ppd file contain all the information needed for it to install? I see that the ppd are in ppm-config on my source machine.	[reply]
Re^3: copy perl from one box to another by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 11, 2010 at 19:25 UTC
IIRC, View the ppd and download the referenced .tar.gz. Edit the ppd an change the the url to `file:foo.tar.gz` (or whatever) `ppm install file:foo.ppd`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: copy perl from one box to another by planetscape (Chancellor) on Jan 12, 2010 at 00:38 UTC
You may find one or more of the following useful: Installing Modules Two Version Of Perl Side By Side Minimal Perl Perl on a bootable USB key Running Perl standalone, e.g. from a USB key Never without (win32) perl Portable perl: usb thumbdrive HTH, planetscape	[reply]