Packaging Perl makes it very easy to turn your module into a package suitable for submitting to CPAN. See Programming Perl for all the details; Start from a template: h2xs -XAn GD::Text::Arc Will create: directory GD, containing Text, containing Arc... ... containing a stub Arc.pm module, README file, test.pl, and stub Makefile.PL Make a .tar.gz file you can install anywhere you like: perl Makefile.PL ; make ; make dist