About perl

On Windows

Is preferred to use the open source project Strawberry.
Download and run the installer.
You can refer to their wiki.

Set the environment variables first:
-EDITOR=%windir%\system32\notepad.exe
-HOME
-LANG=en_US.UTF8
-TERM
-VISUAL (i.e. D:\GNU\Notepad++\notepad++.exe)
-PERL5SHELL=%windir%\system32\cmd.exe
-PERL5LIB=C:\strawberry\perl\lib\

On other than Windows

Set the environment variables first:
-EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano
-HOME
-LANG=en_US.UTF8
-TERM
-VISUAL
-PERL5SHELL
-PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5/

Use CPAN

Update CPAN in CPAN:
cpan> install CPAN
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
cpan> q

Install PPM using CPAN:
cpan> d /ppm/
Choose and go.

Add you corresponding repositories on PPM as:
set repository MSWin32x86 http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.12/1200/
set repository UWinniePack12xx http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/12xx/
set repository TrouchellePPM12 http://trouchelle.com/ppm12/
set repository WxPerl http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository/
set repository Bribes http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/
set repository BioPerlDist http://bioperl.org/DIST
set repository BioPerlRC http://bioperl.org/DIST/RC
set repository tcool http://ppm.tcool.org/archives/
set repository GtkPerl http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/win32/ppm/

Add your CPAN modules as:

install Captcha::reCAPTCHA
install Class::Accessor
install Class::Autouse
install Class::Data::Inheritable
install Class::Trigger
install Compress::Zlib
install Convert::Binary::C
install Crypt::DH

install DBD::mysql

install DBI

install DB_File

install Data::Stag
install Data::Stag::XMLWriter

install DateTime

install Digest::HMAC_SHA1
install Digest::MD5
install Digest::SHA1
install File::Temp

install GD
install GD::Graph
install GTop
install GnuPG::Interface

install Graph
install Graph::Directed

install HTML::Entities
install HTML::Parser
install HTML::Tagset
install HTML::Template
install HTTP::Request::Common

install IO::String
install IO::WrapTie
install IP::Country::Fast
install Image::Magick
install Image::Size
install LWP::Simple
install LWP::UserAgent
install List::MoreUtils
install MIME::Lite
install MIME::Words
install Mail::Address
install Mail::GnuPG
install Math::BigInt::GMP
install Net::DNS
install Proc::ProcessTable
install RPC::XML
install SOAP::Lite
install SVG
install Set::Scalar
install Spreadsheet::ParseExcel

install Statistics::Frequency
install Storable
install String::CRC32
install Text::Shellwords
install Text::Wrap
install Text::vCard

install URI::Fetch
install URI::URL

install Unicode::CheckUTF8
install Unicode::MapUTF8

install XML::Atom
install XML::DOM
install XML::DOM::XPath
install XML::LibXML
install XML::Parser
install XML::Parser::PerlSAX
install XML::RSS
install XML::SAX
install XML::SAX::Base
install XML::SAX::Writer
install XML::Simple
install XML::Twig
install XML::Writer


BioPerl

Follow their wiki.

Install dependencies as:

install Ace
install Bio::ASN1::EntrezGene