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Until now I used ActiveState's ActivePerl, and used the ppm for installing modules.

Last week I moved to Strawberry Perl, but I don't know how I should install modules using Strawberry Perl. What is some information on how module installation is done using Strawberry Perl or is there some link on how to install new modules?

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You can still use ppm, but it is not recommended. Run CPAN client from the Strawberry Perl or Strawberry Perl (64-bit), sub folder Tools, entry in the Start menu.

Type install Module::Name there.

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On Windows 7, Start Menu > Strawberry Perl > Tools > CPAN Client
On Windows 8.1, Start>Cpan Client
On Windows 10, Start Menu > All Apps > Strawberry Perl > CPAN Client
I've done the install Module::Name (Date::Calc in my case), but program still fails saying code Can't locate Date/Calc.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Date::Calc module) (@INC contains: C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib C:/Strawberry/perl/lib) at .\Create_DELETE_XML_20220602.pl line 3. code
@M.S.Visser a search result led me to page github.com/theos/theos/issues/273 and shed some light on this issue. could be that the perl executed did not the match the perl which had the module installed / required. similar issue of mine got fixed by calling PERL_INSTALL_DIR\perl\bin\perl.exe with the same parameters.
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As Alexandr says, you can use the CPAN client via the start menu. You can also install modules just as you would on Unix from the DOS window:

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Quantum::Entanglement

You can also download the .tar.gz from CPAN, unzip it and install as you would in Unix:

cd Module-Name-1.23
perl Makefile.PL
dmake
dmake test
dmake install

You may need to make sure your %PATH% environment variable has the right entry to get to Strawberry Perl, and does not contain other copies of dmake or gcc, which will sometimes lead to headaches.

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"cpan" is shorter than "perl -MCPAN -e shell"
well, yes, but I like to be able to check perl -v first to know which Perl I'm running.
As Alex said, it works fine with: cd Module-Name-1.23 perl Makefile.PL dmake dmake test dmake install dmake is a make program that happens to run pretty well on Windows, as described here.
you can do it in one line: cpan Quantum::Entanglement
also you can use cpanm instead of cpan. cpanm might be better if you are new to this, as it has less messages and configuration.
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Change the directory:

cd C:\Strawberry\perl\bin

Then

C:\Strawberry\perl\bin>cpan Lingua::EN::Sentence

and the module will install automatically.

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CPAN is the easiest installation method.

As Alex has noted, you may have to download a .tar.gz and unzip it. Since he wrote his answer, Strawberry Perl has deprecated dmake, and you should use gmake instead.

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