You can install Bundles from CPAN:

# perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'
cpan> b
# (get a list of some 130 Bundles)
cpan> install Bundle::LWP
etc...
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You can also create your own bundles, or if you have a box that's already got what you want installed you can use the autobundle command to get CPAN.pm to make one for you using what's currently installed. See the section "POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES" in perldoc CPAN.

You can also create your own bundles

Would modules that are not pure Perl still need a working compiler on the target machine? Or could they be complied on the donor machine and bundled onto the target machine fully formed?

Nobody seems to have mentionned it, but when you run CPAN for the first time its configuration options include whether you use a proxy or not. So even if you are behind a firewall you can still use it.

• libnet
• MIME::Base64
• URI
• HTML::Parser
• HTML::Tagset
• and, of course, libwww.

• Date::Manip, Set::Object, Storable, IO::Socket, Getopt::Long, Tie::IxHash, Safe, DB_File, Time::HiRes, Digest::MD5, MD5, Digest::SHA1 <
• DBI if using databases (remember to get a DBD:: back-end too, like DBD::mysql or DBD::Oracle)
• If you're into OO, get Tangram and prepare for DB enlightenment.
• If you're doing Event-based programming, get POE.
li>If you're doing CGI work, CGI, FCGI (check out http://www.fastcgi.com), Email::Valid, and various Apache modules.

AFAIK there is no easy answer for this. If I were you, I'd wrap up each CPAN module into a seperate System V package (see the man page for pkgmk, prototype, pkginfo, etc). In fact, put perl into one too (or download the precompiled one from sunfreeware.com).

This includes numerous modules as listed in this modules readme file and may contain most of what you require.

So, as I have promised to tell about the O'Reilly book with
the cdrom included, to install all of the modules that
are in the cpan snapshot included there for offline install,
here it is:

I am located at germany, so I tell you the original information
first, then I will translate the stuff:

"Programmieren mit Perl Modulen" von Nate Patwardhan & Clay
Irwing, ISBN 3-89721-108-4
and as you might guess ;-)
"Programming with Perl Modules" by Nate Patwardhan & Clay Irwing
...the ISBN seems not to be international, and I don't know how
to convert it, so I present you a link right here:
O'Reilly
and if the book is still available, I don't know.
But if you are willing to follow that, you will be lucky when
keep on searching :-)

One thing that came into my mind, when I kept on thinking about
not to forget my promise: There are a lot of internet related
modules, which might won't install, if your box is so firewalled.
BTW: I never tried out the script, so, if you try it out, I'd
appreciate a comment about it.

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there are no silly questions
killerhippy