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How do I install Perl Modules using CPAN (Gnu Compiler Collection)?

WARNING: DO NOT USE MCPAN in shell mode. It tries to upgrade to the latest version of Perl and that will not work.

These commands will NOT work:

perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install CGI'

Instead, you will need to use this command:

perl -MCPAN -e 'get CGI'

If you get an error(s) similar to:

Warning: prerequisite Class::Container failed to load: 
Can't locate Class/Container.pm in @INC

You should get and install Class::Container first, along with any other pre-requesites it squawks about.

cd  /.cpan/build
perl Makefile.PL
make
make  install

A successful intallation will have something like the following near the last line of the make install output:

Appending installation info to 
/usr/local/perl/lib/5.6.0/i686-linux/perllocal.pod

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