Partly out of upgrade frustration, partly out of others shared hosting/PREFIX frustration, partly out of Catalyst development on my USB thumb drive, and partly because I can...I put together an uppack-and-run version or Catalyst with Template/TT view support for those who with to try out Catalyst with the minimal amount of effort.

Simply download CatInABox.tar.gz, unpack it to the location of your choice and double-click start.bat on windows, or run ./start.sh from your favorite shell on *nix.

That's it. Now you're ready for:

catalyst.pl MyApp
cd MyApp
script/*server.pl -r