How to install Perl modules

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 14, 2009, at 19:40, Mine wrote:

> Initially when I tried your instructions I got an error relating to  
> p5-io-compress
> when I tried to install p5-libwww-perl. It eventually installed but  
> when I looked
> into /opt/local/lib/perl5/ I found that two new directories were  
> created "site_perl"
> and "vendor_perl". vendor_perl contained a 5.8.8 directory with what  
> looked like
> a duplicate of the files installed in "site_perl".
>
> From what I can see, some of the files I was trying to install —  
> HTML, HTTP, LWP,
> URI etc were not installed in the original 5.8.8 Perl directory but  
> in the new directories.
> Does this mean that the files are not properly installed?

As far as I know, the ports install files into the places they intend  
to. What issues are you encountering?