Sadly, due to memory constraints in place on the system (I work for a university), I can't run CPAN myself
I'm sorry, what? Does the CPAN shell really take up that much more memory than any other Perl script on your system? (It doesn't appear to on mine.) CPAN is just a Perl module, just like any other Perl module. It almost seems like you maybe think you have to run a local CPAN mirror to use the cpan shell. You don't.
Each module I was trying to install is a single .pm file, no package, no Makefiles, etc. just a single .pm file.
Then you're not downloading the distribution correctly from the CPAN website. All (or as near as makes no difference) of the distributions available there are tar-balls that contain a Makefile.PL to install with. Search for the module to install on the website I linked (eg, Term::ReadKey, Crypt::Passwd, or Digest::MD5), click the distribution link (the smaller link underneath the main module name), and click the Download link on that page. You will get the .tar.gz file which contains the Makefile.PL. See the other comments in this thread on how to install from there (including sauoq's suggestion on using PREFIX).
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++bbfu! You found my problem. I was downloading the actual .pm file for each module, not the tarred/gzipped distro. After downloading, unzipping, and making the module, I can successfully use the modules now.
As for running a CPAN mirror, that was not the case. I can run the CPAN shell, and it would configure and start downloading modules, but every time it started compiling the module, I would get an out of memory error. CPAN seems to auto-update (the version installed on our system is 1.59, and I think the current version is 1.71?) before it will download any other modules, and would always crash when attempting compile the new version of CPAN.
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Huh. That's odd. I never had much luck updating Bundle::CPAN either, myself, but it never forces me to. I don't have any idea why it would. Maybe check your URL list (*shrug*) using o conf from the cpan shell. Or maybe the prerequisites_policy option. I really have no idea, though. I guess you could always try updating Bundle::CPAN manually, as with the other modules, but I imagine it's more of a hassle than it's worth, since you can install modules ok now.
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