Manual installation of a Perl Module

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Use this recipe for manually installing perl modules:

tar zxf Digest-SHA1-2.13.tar.gz
cd Digest-SHA1-2.13
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Note that some distributions will have a Build.PL file instead of Makefile.PL. In that case use this recipe:

tar zxf ...
cd ...
perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install

(You may be able to get by with just running make install and ./Build install.)

If you need to alter the installation dir then use:

perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=...

or

perl Build.PL --install_base ...

depending on the kind of module.

For more info see the perldoc for ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ and Module::Build

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