How many times did you wanted for Module::Install to just install available Debian packages and THEN use CPAN? I did several times. Here is quick diff to Module::Install::AutoInstall which does just that...
--- /home/dpavlin/.cpan/build/Module-Install-0.68/lib/Module/Install/A
+utoInstall.pm     2007-10-31 11:34:27.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Module/Install/AutoInstall.pm   2008-0
+3-12 20:58:01.000000000 +0000
@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@
     my @core = map @$_, map @$_, grep ref,
                $self->build_requires, $self->requires;
 
+       my @debs;
+       while ( my $module = shift @core ) {
+               my $ver = shift @core;
+               my $deb = 'lib' . lc($module) . '-perl';
+               $deb =~ s/::/-/g;
+               push @debs, $deb;
+       }
+       system "sudo apt-get install @debs";
+
     my @config = @_;
 
     # We'll need Module::AutoInstall

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