Installation: Perl module

This method assumes that you have Perl and some version of make installed, so may not work on all systems.

Installing a perl Module has the advantage that there is (usually) no need to change PATH, but the disadvantage that it installs directly into your Perl installation (or personal perl folder known to Perl), which you may not want to do.

You unpack the archive into a temporary folder and run the standard Perl module installation incantation. Unlike the other installation methods you can then delete the installation folder because all the code has been copied into Perl somewhere.

1. Save the archive then uncompress and extract it (Linux, Apple, UNIX):

   tar xvzf mview-VERSION.tar.gz
   

   or (Windows, using an archiver like 7-Zip, as here):

   7z x mview-VERSION.zip
   

   This creates a sub-folder mview-VERSION containing all the files.

2. Change to this folder.

You can now use one of the following sets of instructions to do the install:

3. Run:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make install
   

   which attempts to install into the Perl distribution.

3. Or run:

   perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=/usr/local
   make install
   

   which attempts to install under the given folder. In this UNIX example you need write access to /usr/local and users will need /usr/local/bin on their PATH.

3. Or, if you have a local::lib setup, you can install MView there:

   perl Makefile.PL $PERL_MM_OPT
   make install
   

4. Finally, the unpacked archive can be deleted since the important components have been copied elsewhere.