To install a local perl module, follow steps like these: mkdir ~/lib cd ~/lib wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RK/RKHILL/DateTime-Astro-Sunrise-0.01_01.tar.gz tar -zxvf DateTime-Astro-Sunrise-0.01_01.tar.gz cd DateTime-Astro-Sunrise-0.01_01 perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/lib LIB=~/lib make make test make install In the actual script you want to run, include this: use lib '/path/to/username/lib'; use DateTime; use DateTime::Astro::Sunrise; Simple test script that checks the perl modules used on local system: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Array::Diff; use Array::Unique; use File::Compare; use File::Copy; use File::Path; use File::Slurp; use Getopt::Long; use HTML::TableExtract; use IO::All; use IPC::System::Simple qw(capture capturex system systemx run runx $EXITVAL EXIT_ANY); use LWP::Simple; use Math::Round; use Sys::Hostname; use Term::ANSIColor; use Text::Unidecode;