Is it reasonable to expect the host to take care of those sorts of details? When they add a new perl module to their systems, it should be automatically reflected in everyone's web server (if that's their intention). They shouldn't be sending me the path, as if I knew what to do with it. I've got lots of computer experience (DBA mostly), but very little Perl and no web server experience. I can't imagine the frustration some non-techie would have.

So, the key is to ask my host to add the Image::Majick path to the PERL5LIB variable?

I guess I could change hosts, but that would be an inconvenience.