You can go to http://search.cpan.org/ or use Google to find out the module. Make sure you get the name of the module.
Update Perl CPAN Link :
From the root prompt on your server, invoke the CPAN shell:
#perl -MCPAN -e shell
Once the Perl interpreter has loaded (and been configured), you can install
modules with: install
.
MODULENAME
The first thing you should do is upgrade your CPAN (Take a long time for me at the first time!):
cpan>install Bundle::CPAN
Once it is completed, type:
cpan>reload cpan
Now, enter the following command to retrieve all of the required modules:
cpan>install DateTime
Installing Perl modules Link
Perl modules may be installed using the CPAN module or from source.
CPAN method
perl -MCPAN -e shell
(to get an interactive CPAN shell)
perl -MCPAN -e 'install
Time::JulianDay'
(if you know the name of the module, you can
install it directly without interacting with the CPAN shell)
Within the CPAN shell:
i /expression/
will search for a
Perl module containing expression
,
and
install
module
will
install the module.
Example:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
i /JulianDay/
(search a module)
install Time::JulianDay
Note: if you are behind a firewall, you may wish to use passive FTP with Perl's Net::FTP module. Set the environment variable FTP_PASSIVE 1 (or any non-zero value) to use passive FTP when downloading Perl modules through CPAN.
Manual installation
To manually install a Perl module:
1. Download the Perl module from CPAN
or other site.
2. Extract the tarball.
3. Run perl Makefile.PL
4. Run make
5. Run make test
6. Run make install
Note: you should use the same compiler to build Perl modules that you used to build Perl. For example, if you are building Perl modules with gcc and are using a version of Perl that was supplied with your distribution (ex. Solaris 8 includes Perl 5.005_03), you may run into errors.
Example: building Perl DBI with gcc on Solaris 8 system with Perl 5.005 (part of the Solaris 8 release).
cc: unrecognized
option `-KPIC'
cc: language depend not recognized
The Makefile for Perl modules is created using flags for SUNWspro (the compiler used to build Perl 5.005 for the Solaris 8 release), not gcc . As a workaround, you could build Perl from source using the gcc compiler, or obtain a packaged version of Perl that is built with gcc , such as those at Sunfreeware . This comp.lang.perl.modules post has more information.
Checking for existence of a Perl module
An easy way to check for the existence of a Perl module on your system
(technically, in Perl's @INC array, a list of directories Perl searches
when attempting to load modules) is to run perl -e 'use module;'
Example:
perl -e 'use HTML::Parser;'
If nothing is returned, Perl was able to locate the module. Otherwise, you will see Can't locate HTML/Parser.pm in @INC
.