Not a direct answer to your question, cpan shell is always better because it resolves dependencies, but generally i will do like this.
whenever you install a module you have to give the prefix as your desired directory path
for example,
assuming I am downloading warnings::unused from
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GF/GFUJI/warnings-unused-0.04.tar.gz 

go to the downloaded path and untar the tar ball and run
perl Makefile.PL prefix=$HOME
make
make install
make test
make clean
add the installed directory in $PATH variable

man warnings::unused

you will get the man page of it

but for using this module in your perl program you have to either you
-I option of perl interpreter
or 
use lib
or 
add in @INC 

it will just work fine
you can have any number of modules downloaded like this and keep in yo
+ur home directory, as long as you have disk space and internet.

[download]
Vivek
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In reply to Re: Installing CPAN module using cpan shell by targetsmart
in thread Installing CPAN module using cpan shell by velusamy

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