Difficulty installing more and more modules

[Mark Berryman]

More and more of the modules I  need to install in Perl generate a 
message similar to the following:

$ perl makefile.pl
==> ExtUtils::AutoInstall 0.52 required. Install it from CPAN? [Y/n]
If I understand correctly, this is a module that automatically installs 
dependencies from CPAN, which currently does not work in VMS.  What 
options do I have to get such modules installed (I'd do them manually if 
I knew how).

Mark Berryman