The normal way looks like this: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install For details see perldoc perlmodinstall perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker If you don't have 'make' on your system, then just copy 'MD5.pm' to a directory named 'Digest/Perl/' in one of the paths from @INC. e.g. /home/lackas/usr/perl/Digest/Perl/MD5.pm and insert a 'use lib' statement to your code: use lib '/home/lackas/usr/perl/'; use Digest::Perl::MD5