Re: texinfo-4.13.94 pretest available

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:10:38PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> How about explaining for Unix, then?  Or for one flavor of GNU/Linux
> you are familiar with?  I think I can take it from there.

I think that this page explains it:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html

I would do

cpan -i Data::Compare

or

cpanp -i Data::Compare

You may also need to change environment variables in your shell startup
file, such as PERL5LIB.

> What I'm looking for is (a) where to download the packages, and (b)
> how to install them on a garden-variety machine manually, i.e. without
> using apt-get etc.  That should be pretty standard procedure for
> installing Perl modules, isn't it?

As you can see in http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html there is 
not really a standard procedure, although using cpan/cpanp is certainly 
the most common case.  (But you still need to configure cpan/cpanp).

-- 
Pat