Oh, and as far as how to install new modules without root access: make a perllib directory under your home directory. Add this directory to your PERL5LIB environment variable (in your shell's rc-file). When you install the new module, there should be a parameter to the "configure" shell script for something along the lines of --basedir or something like that (look at the README and/or INSTALL files that come with the module). You can specify that so that when you run "make install" it installs the code into your personal perl-library directory instead of the root ones.

There's a similar parameter for use with CPAN.pm, but you can look at the docs for it. I don't know off the top of my head, and you're just as capable of reading "man CPAN" as I am. :-D

Also, you could just send an email to your system's administrator asking him/her to install these modules for you... they just might do it, if you

• ask them politely
• explain what it is, what it is for (and maybe why other users of the system might want it)
• give them the command to install it (like, "cd /home/me/some_module/; make install" or "perl -MCPAN -e 'install some_module'")

Sysadmins aren't (generally) evil monsters. You needn't fear them (unless, for example, the MotD on your system is "Fear the wrath of root!" or some such :-D).