Here's how you get all of CPAN to carry around with you.

Check out merlyn's minicpan script. In that script, set the $LOCAL variable to a directory of your choice, and the $REMOTE to a CPAN server near you. Run that script on a machine with internet access. Burn the directory to a CD (or copy it to a USB stick).

On the target machine, mount the medium. Run cpan and set the first item in urllist to the directory containing the CPAN archive (e.g. /mnt/cdrom/MINICPAN):

$ cpan

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.xxxx)

cpan> o conf urllist unshift file:///mnt/cdrom/MINICPAN

cpan> o conf commit
commit: wrote /home/user/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm

cpan>
[download]

Voilà. You are ready to install any CPAN Module from your removable device.

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