14.5. Installing modules on Unix manually with root rights

• Download the tar.gz file from search.cpan or other site (wget URL)

• Linux: tar xzf distribution.tar.gz

• UNIX: gunzip distribution.tar.gz

• UNIX: tar xf distribution.tar

• perl Makefile.PL

• make

• make test

• make install (as root)

Without root rights

 
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/foobar/perlib LIB=/home/foobar/perlib/lib

In the code:

use lib '/home/foobar/perlib/lib';
use My::Module;

Module::Build
perl Build.PL --install_base /home/foobar/perl5lib --install_path lib=/home/foobar/perl5lib/lib
./Build
./Build test
./Build install