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2.2.10.2. Installation
Perl's capabilities can be extended by installing additional modules. These modules come in the following forms:
- Official Red Hat RPM
- The official module packages can be installed with
yumorrpmfrom the Red Hat Enterprise Linux repositories. They are installed to/usr/share/perl5and either/usr/lib/perl5for 32bit architectures or/usr/lib64/perl5for 64bit architectures. - Modules from CPAN
- Use the
cpantool provided by the perl-CPAN package to install modules directly from the CPAN website. They are installed to/usr/local/share/perl5and either/usr/local/lib/perl5for 32bit architectures or/usr/local/lib64/perl5for 64bit architectures. - Third party module package
- Third party modules are installed to
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perland either/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perlfor 32bit architectures or/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perlfor 64bit architectures. - Custom module package / manually installed module
- These should be placed in the same directories as third-party modules. That is,
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perland either/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perlfor 32bit architectures or/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perlfor 64bit architectures.
Warning
If an official version of a module is already installed, installing its non-official version can create conflicts in the
/usr/share/man directory.
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