Hi there!
I am interested in getting my feet wet with using modules. In particular I want to experiment with Data::Dumper. The version of perl5 on my host's BSD box (5.004_04) is too early to have it included automatically, so I need to install it myself.
If I simply follow the instructions in the Data::Dumper README, is there any chance that something will go wrong?

Ideally I would like to install any new modules in my own user space, I guess. Can that be done? (So that there less chance that my experimenting with building modules will screw up perl5 for anyone else using the system -- For example, it occurs to me that even though my scripts can't find Data::Dumper in the "default" location, someone else may have installed it somewhere else.. and my re-installation of it might screw them up -- or worse yet, my experimentation could break Perl or the entire sytem).

Is there any way to install modules so that they are just "local" to a given directory (instead of getting added to the main module path).

And I defintely don't want to break anything... Any advice would be appreciated!