I've already read related threads like these, but they do not fully capture our situation--

1. Ours is a firewalled machine. No net access. We can ftp files to folders and install modules from there.

2. We have CHMOD 777 for our users on some folders. With this we can install Perl modules if we locally build them by downloading the relevant .pm files. But when these files cannot install, we do not have any cpan or cpanm which would, I think, require net access to install stuff?

I'd like to install, for example, HTML::Restrict. If I do the download + install thing, the Restrict.pm gives me this error:

/lib/HTML/Restrict.PM:328: Unknown command paragraph "=encoding UTF-8"

Reading a bit online suggests that this could be an old Perl problem. We use 5.8.x. Our own dev machines have the luxury of 5.16.x and internet access so installing module is a cinch. Anyway, one of my older machines also has 5.8.x, and installing the module via cpanminus worked there (with internet).

So, question: is it possible to install "cpanminus" (cpanm) through FTP, then upload specific module files to the server through FTP too, and then go into shell and install modules via cpanm by pointing it to respective .pm files?

Thank you for any pointers.

In reply to Installing cpan or cpanm modules on a behind-firewall machine with no Internet connection by morespinach

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