Installing PERL modules using CPAN

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Documentation is available at perldoc CPAN.

Searching CPAN

The website http://search.cpan.org provides a search box to search for keywords associated with packages.

Installing modules

Once you know the module name you would like to install, you need to sudo as root and install the module, e.g.

<perl>

sudo -s perl -MCPAN -e 'install Statistics::ChiSquare' </perl>