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copied!<p><strong>On Unix</strong>:</p> <p>usually you start <em>cpan</em> in your shell:</p> <p><code># cpan</code></p> <p>and type</p> <p><code>install Chocolate::Belgian</code></p> <p>or in short form:</p> <p><code>cpan Chocolate::Belgian</code></p> <p><strong>On Windows</strong>:</p> <blockquote> <p>If you're using ActivePerl on Windows, the <a href="http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.10/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html#pkg_operations" rel="noreferrer">PPM (Perl Package Manager)</a> has much of the same functionality as CPAN.pm.</p> </blockquote> <p>Example:</p> <p><code># ppm</code><br/> <code>ppm> search net-smtp</code><br/> <code>ppm> install Net-SMTP-Multipart</code></p> <p><strong>see <a href="http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_Perl_modules" rel="noreferrer">How do I install Perl modules?</a> in the CPAN FAQ</strong></p> <p>Many distributions ship a lot of perl modules as packages.</p> <ul> <li>Gentoo: category <a href="http://www.gentoo-portage.com/dev-perl" rel="noreferrer"><strong>dev-perl</strong></a></li> <li>Debian: <code>apt-cache search 'perl$'</code></li> </ul> <p>You should <em>always</em> prefer them as you benefit from automatic (security) <strong>updates</strong> and the ease of <strong>removal</strong>. This can be pretty tricky with the <em>cpan</em> tool itself.</p> <p>For Gentoo there's a nice tool called <strong><a href="http://www.gentoo-portage.com/dev-perl" rel="noreferrer">g-cpan</a></strong> which builds/installs the module from CPAN and creates a Gentoo package (<a href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/g-cpan.xml" rel="noreferrer">ebuild</a>) for you.</p>

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