note scorpio17 <p> Are you familiar with <a href="http://www.bugzilla.org">Bugzilla</a> ? It's a bug tracking tool, written in perl. It's a large project and requires lots of modules from CPAN. But it comes with a script called checksetup.pl that automatically detects which ones are missing, and will actually go fetch and install anything that you don't have. You might consider taking a look under the hood and see if there's anyway you could adapt it for your purposes. 841866 841866