INSTALL ------- sendxmpp requires perl 5.x, Getopt::Long and Net::XMPP. $ tar xvfz sendxmpp-(version).tar.gz $ cd sendxmpp-(version) $ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ make install This will install under /usr/local; to install under another prefix, for exampl;e "/usr", do: $ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr instead.