INSTALL. 

A. DECOMPRESS 

Decompress the file with gzip -d yourmodule.tar.gz 

You can get gzip from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu. 

Or, you can combine this step with the next to save disk space:      gzip -dc yourmodule.tar.gz | tar -xof -
(or, this is Nathan's trick "tar -xvzf yourmodule.tar.gz" since that also does both steps.)



B. UNPACK 

Unpack the result with tar -xof yourmodule.tar 

C. BUILD 

Go into the newly-created directory and type:       perl Makefile.PL
      make
      make test



D. INSTALL 

While still in that directory, type:       make install



Make sure you have appropriate permissions to install the module in your Perl 5 library directory. Often, you'll need to be root.