diff --git a/modulefiles/canu/1.7.lua b/modulefiles/canu/1.7.lua
index 7d13a028792c0e9e6646b253555bd2b36b800f54..743d4f1835ab582528bf2efc767be2e560c4b9f0 100644
--- a/modulefiles/canu/1.7.lua
+++ b/modulefiles/canu/1.7.lua
@@ -42,4 +42,5 @@ prereq_any("Java/1.8.0_151")
 
 whatis([===[loads canu 1.7 (Debian 9) environment ]===])
 prepend_path{"PATH", pathJoin(root, "bin")}
+prepend_path{"PERL5LIB", pathJoin(root, "lib")}
 setenv("canu_PATH", pathJoin(root, "bin"))