in reply to How to install without PPM?

Since you are likely to come across this problem again, I would point out that CPAN.pm is part of the standard Perl installation. You can run this from the command line by typing:

perl -MCPAN -e shell;

To install a module type:

 i filename

It helps to have a compiler installed, but not all modules require it.

Also, to perform the installation by hand, you'll likely want the files to end up in perl/site/lib, but that varies from system to system. But the commands for installing modules are usually the same. First go to the module's directory then type:

perl Makefile.PL
make install
make test
make

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That's pretty much it, but depending on the module there might be more involved.

Another thing to be aware of is prerequisite modules. Be careful that the module you are installing doesn't require other modules to be in place first. The CPAN module can be configured to follow these dependencies & automagically install everything required.

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Setting paths when installing without PPM
by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jul 02, 2001 at 02:28 UTC
    And remember that when installing modules this way, that you can make them install wherever you want using the LIB= and/or PREFIX= arguments to MakeMaker (see the ExtUtils::MakeMaker manpage):

    perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/lib

This will install the module's architecture-independent files into ~/l
+ib, the architecture-dependent files into ~/lib/$archname.

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    So in the (apparently) common case of installing modules in your own directory on someone else's web server, this is what you can do.

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