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tutorials  installing cpan modules  ( categories: )  There are
basically 2 methods to install a module from CPAN: manual and
automatic (using the CPAN module).  Which method to use depend
of the situation; using the automatic method is easier but
assumes you are connected to the Internet; another advantage of
using the CPAN shell is that it tries to resolve potential
module dependency problems automatically (if you use the manual
method, you have to manually resolve this issues). On the other
hand, if you already have downloaded the perl module and/or you
don't have Internet access, then the manual method could be the
way to go.  -- Manual installation  1. Download the tarball file
from to your computer  2. Decompress and unpack the tarball
file:  gzip -dc file.tar.gz | tar xvf -  3. Go into the folder
that was created by the previous command  4. Build the module
executing the following commands:  perl Makefile.PL make test
5. If everything went we