Installing Perl modules without an Internet connection

If you do not have an Internet connection for each of the servers in your IBM® InfoSphere® Master Data Management Collaboration Server installation, you can download the Perl modules from CPAN and then copy them to your servers for you to install.

Before you begin

  • If you are using the operating system installation of Perl, you must have root access.
  • If you are using a custom installation of Perl, make sure that the installation directory is the first directory in the PATH statement.

Procedure

  1. Download the Perl modules from http://search.cpan.org.
    You must review the dependencies for the modules and download all of those dependent modules that are not installed on your InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server servers as well.
    Note: The home page of many modules on the CPAN site has a dependencies link that you can review to determine the dependencies of a module.
  2. For each of the modules that you downloaded, complete the following steps:
    1. Unpack it into a writeable directory.
    2. Run the Perl configure command: perl Makefile.pl.
    3. Run the make command.
    4. Run the make test command.
      Do not proceed until this command completes successfully.
    5. Run the make install command.