Manual installation of a Perl Module

Question

I have downloaded the module Digest::SHA1 and extracted it to a directory (../Digest-SHA1-2.13/) , then copied all the SHA1.* files into (../Digest-SHA1-2.13/Di

Answer 1

Any reason why you can't use local::lib?

create and use a local lib/ for perl modules with PERL5LIB

It is basically a tool to help you use a private (non-systemwide) directory as your Perl library directory.

After setting it up, you could run a command like

perl -MCPAN -Mlocal::lib -e 'CPAN::install(Algorithm::CouponCode)'

and then your script would use your locally installed copy of Algorithm::CouponCode).