in reply to Installing (lotsa) modules

You're going to need: I'd also recommmend:

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).