On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:10:38PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > How about explaining for Unix, then? Or for one flavor of GNU/Linux > you are familiar with? I think I can take it from there.
I think that this page explains it: http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html I would do cpan -i Data::Compare or cpanp -i Data::Compare You may also need to change environment variables in your shell startup file, such as PERL5LIB. > What I'm looking for is (a) where to download the packages, and (b) > how to install them on a garden-variety machine manually, i.e. without > using apt-get etc. That should be pretty standard procedure for > installing Perl modules, isn't it? As you can see in http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html there is not really a standard procedure, although using cpan/cpanp is certainly the most common case. (But you still need to configure cpan/cpanp). -- Pat
