Na forma tradicional, devemos acessar a página de busca do CPAN:

• The CPAN Search Site - search.cpan.org

Insira o que procura no campo de busca, seja ele módulo, distribuição ou autor. Tomarei como exemplo um módulo que empacotei tanto para Debian, como para o Slackware, o linux-desktop-files:

• Linux::DesktopFiles - search.cpan.org

Baixe seu source, seja como root ou como usuário normal:

wget -nv http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TR/TRIZEN/Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09.tar.gz
tar xf Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09.tar.gz
cd Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09/
perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
sudo ./Build install

Vejam o log:

+-[slackware][~]
+-? wget -nv http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TR/TRIZEN/Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09.tar.gz
Linux-DesktopFiles- 100%[=====================>]  10,03K  4,59KB/s   em 2,2s
2015-04-22 09:18:41 URL:http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/T/TR/TRIZEN/Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09.tar.gz [10268/10268] -> "Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09.tar.gz" [1]
+-[slackware][~]
+-? tar xf Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09.tar.gz
+-[slackware][~]
+-? cd Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09/
+-[slackware][~/Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09]
+-? perl Build.PL
Created MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Creating new 'Build' script for 'Linux-DesktopFiles' version '0.09'
+-[slackware][~/Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09]
+-? ./Build
Building Linux-DesktopFiles
+-[slackware][~/Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09]
+-? ./Build test
t/Linux-DesktopFiles.t .. ok
t/pod-coverage.t ........ skipped: Test::Pod::Coverage 1.08 required for testing POD coverage
t/pod.t ................. skipped: Test::Pod 1.22 required for testing POD
All tests successful.
Files=3, Tests=10,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.06 usr  0.00 sys +  0.15 cusr  0.02 csys =  0.23 CPU)
Result: PASS
+-[slackware][~/Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09]
+-? sudo ./Build install
Building Linux-DesktopFiles
Installing /home/edps/perl5/lib/perl5/Linux/DesktopFiles.pm
Installing /home/edps/perl5/man/man3/Linux::DesktopFiles.3
+-[slackware][~/Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09]
+-?

Atentem sempre para a leitura do arquivo README:

+-[slackware][~/Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09]
+-? cat README
Linux-DesktopFiles Perl module
===============================

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Build.PL
   ./Build
   ./Build test
   ./Build install

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Put the correct copyright and licence information here.

Copyright (C) 2012-2013 by Trizen

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.14.2 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

+-[slackware][~/Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09]
+-?

E "Meta.yml", especificamente as linhas "build_requires" e "configure_requires":

+-[slackware][~/Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09]
+-? cat META.yml
---
abstract: 'Get and parse the Linux desktop files.'
author:
  - 'Daniel "Trizen" Șuteu <trizenx@gmail.com>'
build_requires: {}
configure_requires:
  Module::Build: '0'
dynamic_config: 1
generated_by: 'Module::Build version 0.421, CPAN::Meta::Converter version 2.143240'
license: perl
meta-spec:
  url: http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-v1.4.html
  version: '1.4'
name: Linux-DesktopFiles
provides:
  Linux::DesktopFiles:
     file: lib/Linux/DesktopFiles.pm
     version: '0.09'
requires:
  GDBM_File: '0'
  perl: '5.014'
resources:
  license: http://dev.perl.org/licenses/
version: '0.09'
+-[slackware][~/Linux-DesktopFiles-0.09]
+-?

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