A Guide to Installing Modules You may also find only.pm of value as this lets you install multiple versions of a module and then request the version you want. See http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/18/only.html

$ perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/lib

#!/usr/bin/perl
use lib '/home/my_homedir/lib';
use Some::Module;
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