in reply to CPAN Alternatives

At home (or somewhere else from where you can access cpan) use minicpan to make a mirror of CPAN which you can keep on CD/DVD/USB memory stick etc. I don't leave home without it :) You could even host it on a computer at work, which would be handy if you wanted to be able to use access it from various machines. Once a module is installed you can access the documentation via perldoc:

perldoc CGI::Application

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Re^2: CPAN Alternatives
by ptum (Priest) on Oct 07, 2010 at 17:49 UTC
    Yes, I use minicpan. Originally, I ran the minicpan script and created a copy on my home server, then copied the gzipped 'MIRROR' to a work server via my laptop (it only uses about 1GB, as I recall). Problem was, my copy would get stale and I would forget to update it. Eventually, I got external access to one of the CPAN mirrors from a single server in my work network, and so now I run minicpan from there daily, and host the CPAN from that single work server for all the others.

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