INSTALLATION You must already have a copy of the Sword library installed on your system with the development libraries. In the future, I may provide an Alien::Sword library to help with this. On a Debian or Ubuntu system, this means: sudo aptitude install build-essential libsword-dev The usual Perl installation should do the trick. I recommand installing App::cpanminus and running: cpanm Sword OR the regular CPAN should work: cpanm Sword OR manually, by downloading, unpacking the tarball, and running this from the unpacked directory: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install The installation has (so far) only been tested on Linux by myself. Mac OS X should be similar. If you want to use this on Windows, please give it a shot and let me know what goes wrong. I have a Windows machine I can try it on if someone wants it. I will try to watch CPANTS to see if I can get other platforms working. See the POD in Sword.pm for usage: perldoc Sword This archive contains the distribution Sword, version 0.102770: Interface to libsword Bible software API This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Qubling Software LLC. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.