How to install Perl modules

Install Perl Modules Manually

Download Perl module

Go to CPAN Search website and search for the module that you wish to download. In this example, let us search, download and install XML::Parser Perl module. I have downloaded the XML-Parser-2.36.tar.gz to /home/download

# cd /home/download
# gzip -d XML-Parser-2.36.tar.gz
# tar xvf XML-Parser-2.36.tar
# cd XML-Parser-2.36

Build the perl module

# perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for XML::Parser::Expat
Writing Makefile for XML::Parser
# make
# make test

Install the perl module

# make install

Task: List installed perl module

To display the list enter the following command:
$ instmodsh
Sample outputs:

Available commands are:
l            - List all installed modules
m    - Select a module
q            - Quit the program
cmd?

At cmd? prompt type l to list all installed modules:
cmd? l
Sample outputs:

Installed modules are:
Archive::Tar
CPAN
Class::Spiffy
Compress::Zlib
Cwd
Digest::SHA
IO::Zlib
MIME::Lite
Module::Build
Module::Signature
Net::Telnet
PAR::Dist
Perl
Spiffy
Term::ReadLine
Test::Base
Test::Simple
Text::Glob
Weather::Com
XML::Simple
YAML
cmd?