PERL Module: I don't have permission to install a module on the system!

If you don't have root permission you will not be able to install a module in the usual place on a shared user system. If you do not have root access you may get errors like:

$ make install
Warning: You do not have permissions to install into
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd at
/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 62.
mkdir /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/CGI/Simple:
Permission denied at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 120
*** Error code 2
This is easy to get around. You just install it locally in your home directory. Make a directory called say /lib in your home directory like this:

# first navigate to your home directory
$ cd ~
# now make a directory called lib
# on UNIX
$ mkdir lib
# on Win32
C:\> md lib
Now you have a directory called ~/lib where the ~ represents the path to your home dir. ~ literally means your home dir but you knew that already. All you need to do is add a modifier to your perl Makefile.PL command

$ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/lib LIB=~/lib
This tell MakeMaker to install the files in the lib directory in your home directory. You then just make/nmake as before. To use the module you just need to add ~/lib to @INC. See Simple Module Tutorial for full details of how. In a nutshell the top of your scripts will look like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
# add your ~/lib dir to @INC
use lib '/usr/home/your_home_dir/lib/';
# proceed as usual
use Some::Module;

Source: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=128077