What's the easiest way to install a missing Perl module?

Question

I get this error:

Can\'t locate Foo.pm in @INC

Is there an easier way to install it than downloading, untarring, making, etc?

Answer 1

2 ways that I know of :

USING PPM :

With Windows (ActivePerl) I've used ppm

from the command line type ppm. At the ppm prompt ...

ppm> install foo

or

ppm> search foo

to get a list of foo modules available. Type help for all the commands

USING CPAN :

you can also use CPAN like this (*nix systems) :

perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'

gets you a prompt

cpan>

at the prompt ...

cpan> install foo  (again to install the foo module)

type h to get a list of commands for cpan