--- doc/build/manual_install.frag	2003/08/19 14:20:19	1.4
+++ doc/build/manual_install.frag	2003/10/08 17:16:07	1.5
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Creating a user 'www'</a></li>
 Make a LON-CAPA system work with shadow passwords</a></li>
 <li><a href="#install">
 Installing LON-CAPA files</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perl">
+Installing CPAN modules</a></li>
 <li><a href="#checkrpms">
 Checking your Linux RPMs</a> (On RedHat)</li>
 <li><a href="#fixhosts">
@@ -198,6 +200,25 @@ the latest LON-CAPA software.
 <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
 <tr><td><tt>./UPDATE</tt></td></tr>
 </table>
+<a name="perl" />
+<h3>Installing CPAN modules</h3>
+
+<p> Lon-CAPA uses a large numbe of perl modules that need to be
+installed. Some of these may be available on your machine already,
+some can be gotten from packages in your Linux Distribution. Some will probably need to come from CPAN </p>
+
+<p> You can check which modules you have and which ones you need by
+running the TEST script. It will generate a CPAN_STATUS_REPORT.
+You can install an missing perl modules by doing:
+<table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
+<tr><td><tt>perl -MCPAN -e 'install MODULENAME'</tt></td></tr>
+</table>
+Where MODULENAME is the perl module you need to install.
+</p>
+<p>
+More documentation on how CPAN works is available <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_Perl_modules">here</a>
+ </p>
+
 <a name="checkrpms" />
 <h3>Checking your Linux RPMs on RedHat</h3>
 <p>