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).

bbfu
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In reply to Re3: (installing modules) Problem with DynaLoader and "use"ing downloaded modules by bbfu
in thread Problem with DynaLoader and "use"ing downloaded modules by bnanaboy

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