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Installing Perl and Perl Modules

The ActiveState Perl installation provides a convenient mechanism for installing modules that do not ship with their installation called the Perl Package Manager, or PPM. Using PPM, you can easily install many of the Perl modules that are available from the ActiveState web site right from the command line. The documentation that ships with ActiveState's Perl distribution provides a detailed explanation of PPM and how to use it.

There are several useful PPM commands to become familiar with when using ActiveState's Perl distribution. The first and perhaps most important command is help. This command is similar to the /? used to get syntax and usage information from command line tools. The help command displays a ...