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Installing Modules with PPM

The thousands of people in the Perl community share their modules in a place called the CPAN which is an acronym for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. You can search all the modules there at this web site:
    www.cpan.org
ActiveState (who makes the Win32 port of Perl) has made it very easy to download and install a module from CPAN. Here is an example of downloading the Image::Size module.
C:> ppm PPM Interactive Shell - type 'help' for available commands PPM> install Image::Size Install package 'Image::Size?' (y/N): y ... ... ... PPM> quit
ActiveState has not made all modules from CPAN available for downloading via PPM. There are simply too many! Hopefully the one you want is there. If not, you will need to go to CPAN directly (see link above) and do the install yourself. Ask your teacher for help with this.

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