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You may want to look at Perlbrew. It allows you to install your own Perl, and use it instead of system Perl, and install CPAN packages to your heart's content.

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Re^2: Is there a term for this?
by haj (Vicar) on Oct 16, 2019 at 14:59 UTC
    Note that there's a limit for perlbrew: For CPAN libraries which are just interfaces to "standard" libraries, like in the case of XML::LibXML which is based on libxml2, and if libxml2 is not available, then there's nothing perlbrew can do for you unless you also take the trouble to compile libxml2.
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Re^2: Is there a term for this?
by hippo (Archbishop) on Oct 16, 2019 at 15:04 UTC

    Perlbrew requires a C compiler to install perl. I doubt mw has a compiler on the target box if it is so tightly locked down.

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