INSTALLATION If you're reading this, you have successfully unpacked the distribution tar.gz archive. cd there now. SAS::Parser follows the standard scheme for installing Perl extensions: perl Makefile.PL make make install This should install the lib/SAS/*.pm modules in the standard Perl library, and the bin/* scripts in someplace on your PATH (e.g., /usr/local/bin). It will also make manpages for the lib/SAS/*.pm modules somewhere that man and perldoc can find. If this does not work for you, you may simply copy the .pm files in the lib/SAS/ directory to a SAS directory under the standard Perl lib/perl directory and the executable scripts to somewhere on your PATH. mkdir /usr/local/lib/perl5/SAS cp -p lib/SAS/* /usr/local/lib/perl5/SAS cp -p bin/* /usr/local/bin If even that doesn't work, you may just create a ~/lib/perl/SAS directory and copy the .pm files there. perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~ LIB=~/lib/perl/SAS make make install or, by hand, mkdir ~/lib/perl/SAS cp lib/* ~/lib/perl/SAS cp bin/* ~/bin You then have to tell Perl to search there for these modules, e.g., use lib "$ENV{HOME}/lib/perl"; in scripts, or perl -I~/lib/perl ... on the command line.