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in reply to How to install a CPAN module

Mabye you can tell us a little more about your operating system and what version of perl you are using.

While opening a CPAN shell is typically the first step prior to running "install <insert package here>"; how you get to a CPAN shell is different for Strawberry perl on windows, versus a (non-root) linux user at a command prompt, and then there's active state perl on windows which probably has a different way.