Welcome to Perl Monks, Jennifer. First off, let me explain some peices of ettiquite, and suchlike. Users' nodes are input as HTML, so use <p> tags for paragraphs. We extend HTML a little by adding a <code> tag for putting code in. It's also considered normal to put things that aren't code, but should be presented more or less like code, like transcripts, in code tags.

Since you created this node as the annonymous monk, rather then creating a user, you can't go back and edit it. I just Considered the node for editing by our crack team of Editors; after it gains enough edit votes, one of them will add the missing formatting, and thus make this quite a bit easier to read.

Also, we don't generaly email replies to you. Instead, you need to come back and look for updates to your nodes. If you'd written this as a registered user, the system would (optionaly) /msg you, so there'd be a message waiting for you (in the upper-right, at the top of the chatterbox), telling you there was a reply to one of your nodes, and giving a link. The Monastery is a public forum, nodes are (mostly) public, and archived for all time.

Anyway, getting to your question. The suggestions to install Bundle::libnet, Net::FTP, etc, are just that: suggestions. CPAN will be faster and more reliable with them installed, but will fall-back on other methods to download if they are not available.

In any case, your problem seems to be with installing Apache::ASP, not with perl. I suspect you aren't reading the installation instructions correctly, since they don't make sense as you give them -- the CPAN module will automaticly download the file you mentioned, and will not see the copy you downloaded manualy.