Conf::SQL ========= You should be able to make this package only by issuing: perl Makefile.PL make export DSN="a database dsn", e.g. "dbi:Pg:dbname=conf;host=localhost" export DBUSER="a database user", e.g. "conf" export DBPASS="a password for the database user" make test (sudo) make install If you don't want the Conf::SQL package, use perl Makefile.PL --no-sql