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gentoo ~ # cpan

CPAN.pm requires configuration, but most of it can be done automatically.
If you answer 'no' below, you will enter an interactive dialog for each
configuration option instead.
...

What do you have as the very first line of the script?

It needs to be #!/usr/bin/env perl otherwise it will not be run with PERL

Dot, then slash, which means 'current directory'. So you are running htpasswd.pl from the current directory.

The 'options and stuff' are the usual options you would expect htpasswd to use.

Put that in htpasswd.pl, chmod +x ./htpasswd.pl, ./htpasswd.pl options and stuff

Its supposed to act like a normal htpasswd supposedly.

Grrr... Well, as a last resort:

https://gist.github.com/ggl/4966699

It means 'don't print error messages'.

I don't suppose htpasswd needs root to be found on this system...

If you have apache, it must be somewhere. Time for a brute force search:

find / -name 'htpass*' 2>/dev/null

First, file ./htpasswd2.1 to make sure its what you think it is.

I'm surprised your distribution didn't come with htpasswd though. It might be a slightly different name -- htpasswd instead of...

gunzip htpasswd2.1.gz