Re: Local CPAN settings

Good meditation; I've been there.

As you have observed, some versions of CPAN.pm install config information to a CPAN::Config in everybody's @INC path, in such a way as to prevent non-root users from using CPAN.pm. When this happens, I have removed (or simply moved out of the way) Config.pm, and rerun the configuration dialogue as a non-root user.

As an aside, I have a standard technique for dealing with CPAN on Unix systems. The first stage might be to upgrade the perl if the version is older than I am comfortable with. Otherwise, in most instances, the version of CPAN.pm that the installed Perl ships with is a bit old.

I install curl, ncftp and lynx, as these are tools that CPAN.pm will be asking for. And I install and configure sudo of course if it's not there.

As root, I upgrade CPAN.pm to the latest, going through all the configuration questions installing CPAN and leaving the CPAN shell. Then, as my non-root user I run cpan and go through the questions again, except this time, there are more of them, including questions about make install and ./build install. To these questions I use the sudo form of the command. Once this dialogue is complete, I can install Bundle::CPAN and any other modules I want, painlessly.

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Re^2: Local CPAN settings by Herkum (Parson) on Feb 21, 2007 at 18:44 UTC
When you say, use the sudo form of the command, can you give an example? Just trying to understand what you are doing.	[reply]
Re^3: Local CPAN settings by rinceWind (Monsignor) on Feb 21, 2007 at 18:54 UTC
OK, I'll paste some excerpts from the dialogue from cpan "o conf init". `Do you want to use a different make command for 'make install'? Cautious people will probably prefer: su root -c make or sudo make or /path1/to/sudo -u admin_account /path2/to/make or some such. Your choice: [sudo make] ... Do you want to use a different command for './Build install'? Sudo users will probably prefer: su root -c ./Build or sudo ./Build or /path1/to/sudo -u admin_account ./Build or some such. Your choice: [sudo ./Build]` [download] -- Oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ? My friends all rate Windows, I must disagree. Your powers of persuasion will set them all free, So oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ? (Missquoting Janis Joplin)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Local CPAN settings by Herkum (Parson) on Feb 22, 2007 at 00:08 UTC
OK, now I understand, thank you for example! :)	[reply]


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