Ask someone who does to install the module.

Thought of and tried. The client I am referring to had an extremely uncooperative hosting site. In fact they got quite combatitive with me over the issue. They were MS VBScript biggots and didn't want to even support Perl.

Sad side-story to all this was that they had a server crash on the machine that hosted my client's web site. When they rebuilt the machine the did not re-install the Perl interpreter. This went on for several months before we got any cooperation out of them to re-install Perl.

I would strongly urge the group to find a new host. In your case (GNU/Linux development, Windows target), you might be able to do some fancy tricks with a cross-compiler

This option was considered at the time. I must confess though I did not persue it because I wanted more to bring the point home to my client that he needed to get onto a better hosting facility. The one he insisted on staying with was not serving his needs.

I would strongly urge the group to find a new host.

In the end the relationship I had with this client ended badly unfortunately. The client's position at the time (a very small cap business) was that was the hosting facility he picked and that was that. We parted company and interestingly enough the client changed providers twice over the last few years and is now with a very progressive provider.

Client's name, of course, is being withheld for obvios professional reasons.