The AUR offers a surprising number of perl modules, but from time to time I need one which I don't find there. Instead of bypassing the package manager and installing the module directly from [CPAN](http://www.cpan.org/), I use this [way:](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/42620/installing-cpan-dists-not-in-the-arch-repos) sudo pacman -S perl-cpanplus-dist-arch setupdistarch cpanp -i Your::Module::Name Clean and simple, just as I like it.