Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
No such thing as a small change
 
PerlMonks  

comment on

( [id://3333]=superdoc: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??
The way I handle this is to use the system packaging tools (yast in your case, apt in mine) to install the distro's packages if possible.

If the module I need either isn't packaged by the distro, or if I want a newer version, I install via cpan, but as my own non-privileged userid.

When you run CPAN as yourself, the questions tell you how to provide additional args to 'perl Makefile.PL' (PREFIX=foo) or 'Build.PL' (--install_base foo) to install in your home directory. I tend to put things in $HOME/install/perl.

Then you tell your shell to tell perl (when run as you) to find these modules:

export PERL5LIB = $PERL5LIB:$HOME/install/perl/share/perl export PERL5LIB = $PERL5LIB:$HOME/install/perl/lib/perl
and you can then have the best of both worlds. This won't allow other users (e.g. whatever userid your web server runs as) on your box to run the modules, but you can fix that by setting PERL5LIB to refer to your homedir install in that environment too (and check the file permissions work out).

This also works nicely in the multiple-machine one-NFS-homedir setup.


In reply to Re: yast vs cpan by jbert
in thread yast vs cpan by elnino2007

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post; it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
    <code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
  • Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
  • Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.
Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others making s'mores by the fire in the courtyard of the Monastery: (5)
As of 2024-03-28 08:45 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found