If running on a Debian-based OS (this includes Ubuntu), it is highly recommended to install this program as a package. In Debian and Ubuntu, feedgnuplot is in the official repos, so all you need to do is sudo apt-get install feedgnuplot Without a package, an installation can be done with perl Makefile.PL prefix=/usr/local make make install This installs feedgnuplot to /usr/local. Adjust the paths as required. Also, note that this is a self-contained utility. Usually running from the tree works just fine: git clone https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot.git cd feedgnuplot/bin ./feedgnuplot ...