Manual installation Make sure you download the right module for your perl version Get the DBI Perl Module: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/ Get DBD-Mysql Perl Module: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Mysql/ Get the Config Tiny Module: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Config/ Install the DBI module first and then the DBD-MySQL module. shell> tar -xzvf modulename.tar.gz shell> cd modulename shell> perl Makefile.PL shell> make shell> make test shell> make install Repeat the above commands for every module you have to install. ## Automatic installation via CPAN Launch the CPAN modul: shell> perl -MCPAN -e shell If you run the cpan command for the first time you will be asked for some information first. After the use the following commands: cpan> install Bundle::DBI then: cpan> install Bundle::DBD::mysql then: cpan> install Config::Tiny ## Installation of Perl modules on Windows Manual installation Make sure you download the right module for your perl version. Get the DBI Perl Module:http://ppm4.activestate.com/idx/DB.html (Search there for DBI) Get the DBD-MySQL Module: http://ppm4.activestate.com/idx/DB.html (Search there for DBD-MySQL) Get the Config-Tiny Module: http://ppm4.activestate.com/idx/CM...CO.html (Search there for Config-Tiny) As the result you should have two ppmx files saved to your HD. Then use the ppm command to install the ppmx modules: C:\> cd path/to/save/location/of/modules C:\>ppm install DBI-version.ppmx C:\>ppm install DBD-mysql-version.ppmx C:\>ppm install Config-tiny-version.ppmx Make sure you keep the order of the commands. Installation from the Internet It is the same as above, but you do not need to download the modules. Just juse the following commands: C:\>ppm install dbi C:\>ppm install dbd-mysql C:\>ppm install config-tiny ## Installation of Perl modules with Ubuntu / Debian apt-get install libdbi-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libconfig-tiny-perl