Installation instructions for Algorithm::SVMLight In order to install this module, you must first install the core SVMLight software, including the modifications in the SVMLight.patch file (included with the Algorithm::SVMLight distribution): # From the directory with SVMLight's sources: patch -p0 < SVMLight.patch make This will provide a "libsvmlight.a" library (or whatever the equivalent filename is on your system) against which the perl module will be linked. After installing the core SVMLight software, follow the standard procedure for installing Module::Build-based perl modules: perl Build.PL perl Build perl Build test perl Build install (may need to be done as root) If the headers and/or library aren't in a location where your compiler will find them by itself, in the first step you can tell it where they are like so: perl Build.PL --extra_compiler_flags "-I/foo/include -Wall" \ --extra_linker_flags "-L/foo/lib -lsvmlight" -Ken