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 a 'make' command on your system, just copy the 'MD5.pm' file to a directory named 'Digest/Perl/', e.g. /home/lackas/usr/perl/Digest/Perl/MD5.pm and insert that directory to Perl's search path with a 'use lib' statement: use lib '/home/lackas/usr/perl/'; use Digest::Perl::MD5 That's all. Have fun, Christian Lackas,