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If you have the needed PERL modules, yes, you can use it. If you don't have the modules and your host doesn't want to install them, you can do it yourself. Just get the modules and put only the *.pm file in the correct folder. You may do a directory structure like:

/news (inside that is newnews.pl)
/news/lib

Inside /news/lib you make subdirectories named after the needed Perl Module like:

/news/lib/Date
/news/lib/Email

etc.

These directories don't have to be in the webdirectory. Now, the script needs to know where those modules are. So uncomment the line #use lib... With the directories above it should look sth like this:

use lib "/absolute/path/to/news/lib";

To know which modules are missing you can run the configured newnews.pl with perl newnews.pl at the command line. Read the error message and it wil tell what it misses.

Don't forget to chmod 755 all *.pm and *.pl files!!